Daniel N. Gullotta

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Historian of American Religion 🙏 | Asst. Prof., Salmon P. Chase Center for Civics, Culture, and Society, @OhioState 🅾️🌰 | Deacon, @The_ACNA ⚓️

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Articles

The Chimera

Mar 10, 2025 | thedispatch.com | Nick Catoggio |Claude S. Fischer |Daniel N. Gullotta |Nic Rowan

America’s uncertain foreign policy. Published March 10, 2025 This weekend, for the first time, I felt a twinge of nostalgia for the Trump 2016 campaign. Or a moment from the campaign, anyway. Whenever candidate Donald Trump talked about building a border wall and took flak for it from Mexico or the Democrats or whoever, he’d bellow, “The wall just got 10 feet higher!”In the end, the wall did not get 10 feet higher.
The Souls of Serfs and Subjects

Mar 10, 2025 | thedispatch.com | Kevin Williamson |Claude S. Fischer |Daniel N. Gullotta |Nic Rowan

Justice Amy Coney Barrett and ‘loyalty.’ Published March 10, 2025 • Updated March 9, 2025 C. S. Lewis argued that every particular sinful disposition is related to “some good impulse of which it is the excess or perversion.” The appetite for justice becomes wrath, the desire to achieve material prosperity becomes avarice or envy, the normal sexual drive becomes an abnormal one, the impulse toward achievement or excellence becomes pride, the mother of sins.
When the Left Became an Online Mob

Mar 10, 2025 | thedispatch.com | Adaam James Levin-Areddy |Claude S. Fischer |John Mccormack |Daniel N. Gullotta

‘The alternative to Zionism is a second Holocaust.’ By Published March 10, 2025 • Updated March 9, 2025 Former Democratic organizer Brianna Wu joins Adaam James Levin-Areddy for a conversation about her journey from leftist activism to clashing with leftists about antisemitism and the recklessness of transgender politics.
Why Are Young Conservatives Converting to Catholicism?

Mar 9, 2025 | thedispatch.com | Victoria Holmes |Daniel N. Gullotta |Nic Rowan |Alastair Roberts

Published March 9, 2025 Last Easter, more than 1,300 people joined the Catholic Church in Washington, D.C.—many of them young conservatives. With Catholicism gaining influence in right-wing politics and leaders such as Vice President J.D. Vance embracing the faith, is Catholicism becoming the backbone of the conservative movement?
Sacred Anchor, Evolving Artifact

Mar 9, 2025 | thedispatch.com | Daniel N. Gullotta |Alastair Roberts |Michael Reneau |Michael Wear

The Bible seems to be having a moment. Book sales data reveal a across the United States last year, driven largely by first-time buyers. The market is also seeing innovation from new publishers and translations, including the viral Bibliotheca, which omits chapter and verse numbers for enhanced readability, and fresh translations by renowned scholars like N.T. Wright and David Bentley Hart.
The Birth of the American Military

Feb 10, 2025 | thedispatch.com | Thomas Sheppard |Chris Stirewalt |Daniel N. Gullotta |Matthew Kuchem

Published February 10, 2025 • Updated February 7, 2025 In the midst of the tumultuous presidential election of 1800, Thomas Jefferson penned his views on what America’s military establishment should look like.
American Heretics and Heroes

Jan 18, 2025 | thedispatch.com | Nicole Penn |Daniel N. Gullotta |Thomas Sheppard |Ben Rolsma

Who gets to decide who’s been the most faithful to the country’s creeds? Published January 18, 2025 In his seminal 1989 book The Democratization of American Christianity, historian Nathan Hatch posited that the forces of democratization and religious disestablishment unleashed by the American Revolution galvanized an unprecedented outpouring of spiritual enthusiasm.
The Unbalanced Republic

Nov 11, 2024 | thedispatch.com | Kevin Williamson |Michael P. Zuckert |Daniel N. Gullotta |Mary Trimble

Published November 11, 2024 “When the three natural orders in society, the high, the middle, and the low, are all represented in the government, and constitutionally placed to watch each other, and restrain each other mutually by the laws, it is then only, that an emulation takes place for the public good, and divisions turn to the advantage of the nation.” John Adams Of course we shouldn’t trust the people. That’s one of the basic American ideas.
The Rules-Based International Order vs. ‘Autocracy, Inc.’

Nov 2, 2024 | thedispatch.com | Mary Trimble |Daniel N. Gullotta |Mustafa Akyol |Mathis Bitton

Anne Applebaum’s 2020 book Twilight of Democracy includes tales of how her once-normie conservative friends jumped into the deep end of the populist, conspiracist pool. It was a dismaying read then, but four years later—following massive reversals, stunning hypocrisies, bewildering flip-flopping, a newfound penchant for well-done steak with ketchup—it also has an uncanny quality. That vague feeling of reading a week-old newspaper is actually a testament to Applebaum’s perceptiveness.
The Fox vs. the Hedgehog

Nov 1, 2024 | thedispatch.com | Jonah Goldberg |Kevin Williamson |Brian M. Riedl |Daniel N. Gullotta

A life well-lived should be about the struggle for many good things, not just one. Published November 1, 2024 Dear Reader (including those of you who want to be informed on election night rather that merely outraged),I’m feeling ambitious. I’m going to try to do a lot in this, my final “news”letter before the 2024 election is over or “over.” Let’s do it flaneur-style (please don’t say you weren’t warned).