Joseph Baker (East Tennessee State): A Social Anthropology of Ghosts in Twenty-First-Century America. Fifty percent of Americans believe in some conspiracy theory — here’s why. For a rich country, America is unusually religious and optimistic. Timothy P. O'Neill (John Marshall): America the Eusocial. Guns, sex and arrogance: Sahana Singh hated everything about America — until she moved here. Witches and guns: Alycia Michelle Wilson on the intersection between Wicca and the Second Amendment. Kay Steiger on how the United States is getting more tolerant of everyone (except racists). A data genius computes the ultimate American road trip. Books that made America: Adam Begley reviews The Republic of Imagination: A Case for Fiction by Azar Nafisi. Was Charlie Chaplin's Tramp un-American? The fall and rise of individualist pragmatism in America: Adam Kirsch reviews The Age of the Crisis of Man by Mark Greif. Rising individualism in the United States over the last 150 years is mainly associated with a societal shift toward more white-collar occupations, according to new research. Dara Lind on 35 maps that explain how America is a nation of immigrants. John Cassidy on how the biggest threat to America’s future is America. Requiem for American exceptionalism: If the United States no longer seems so different from other developed nations, and if perhaps it never did, then it has lessons to learn from them.
