by Martin Marty | May 31, 2012 | Opinion
My column does not conventionally review books, but one book has been on my desk for months as a prompt for something on which I wanted to comment. This week, fortuitously, friend Kevin Christiano of Notre Dame, knowing of my interest in the subject, sent a copy of a...
by Martin Marty | May 24, 2012 | Opinion
On May 17, the New York Times’ headline read “WhitesAccountforUnderHalfofBirthsinU.S.; TippingPointReached; ImplicationsforPolitics, theEconomyandaNation’sIdentity.” On the same day The Wall Street Journal underscored this “birth”...
by Martin Marty | May 17, 2012 | Opinion
The Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI), alongside Gallup and Pew and other polling agencies, scored big this month. Right in the midst of the treated-as-cosmic discussion of “same-sex” marriage, a not-unnoticed media fest – PRRI released a poll on...
by Martin Marty | May 10, 2012 | Opinion
The class will please come to order. Our text today is “The Law of Cultural Dominance,” formulated by David Kaplan in “Cultural Evolution,” published 52 years ago, and noticed too little since. I find online that I quoted it in a scholarly...
by Martin Marty | May 4, 2012 | Opinion
Our premier historian of late colonial and early republican America, Gordon Wood, while reviewingabook on Roger Williams, warms up readers with references to Thomas Jefferson: “It’s easy to believe in the separation of church and state when one has nothing...
