Nicholas Misukanis

Sep 23, 2024 | commonwealmagazine.org | Dominic Preziosi |Nicholas Misukanis |Gus Mitchell |Gary Dorrien

Article Toxic Relationship Being Israel’s trusted ally does not require the United States to be Netanyahu’s protector—much less his enabler. Article Two Americas? Heather Cox Richardson argues that there are two Americas: one interested in equality, the other in hierarchy. But it’s not that simple. Article History’s Survivors As the promise of endless material abundance breaks, the resilience of the peasant may no longer seem as irrelevant as it once did.

Aug 6, 2024 | commonwealmagazine.org | Nicholas Misukanis |Paul Moses |Nick Fagnant |Jonathan Malesic

Millions of readers know Heather Cox Richardson from her Substack, Letters from an American, in which the Boston College historian analyzes the news and political developments and offers historical background that might otherwise get lost. She hopes that these letters will serve as a record to future generations cataloging how news was received in the moment.

Dec 13, 2023 | americanpurpose.com | Richard Aldous |Katherine Zimmerman |Nicholas Misukanis

The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism by Tim Alberta (Harper, 506 pp., $31.50) Tim Alberta’s latest book, The Kingdom, The Power, and The Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism, argues that contemporary American evangelicals have shifted their focus to the political and visible world around them, and that they risk both losing sight of the unseen eternal kingdom and alienating future generations of potential Christians if they...

Feb 4, 2023 | commonwealmagazine.org | Nicholas Misukanis |Matt McManus |Massimo Faggioli |Daniel M Walden

When Francis Fukuyama wrote The End of History and the Last Man in 1992, his argument that liberalism and liberal democracies were the political culmination of history appeared to be proving true. As he was writing, the Berlin Wall had fallen, the Soviet Union had disintegrated, and the Cold War had, contrary to many experts’ predictions, ended peacefully.