Why do Americans claim to be more religious than they are? Fading Faith: James Haught on America’s secular shift. Taking his stand: An interview with Michael Hill of The League of The South. Karen L. Cox on her book Dreaming of Dixie: How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture. If at first you don't secede, try, try again: Why this newfound fervor for all things Confederate is dangerous for America. Of course the Civil War was about slavery: Concrete concerns about saving and expanding slavery, and not the nebulous theology of states’ rights, ignited the U.S. Civil War — why does that message keep getting lost? (and more) The Road from Secession to Sumter: The New York Times has a series called Disunion, which revisits and reconsiders the perilous period when Americans went to war with themselves. An article on the top 12 Civil War books ever written. By constantly invoking American exceptionalism, are U.S. conservatives actually serving to make America less exceptional? An article on the myth of American Dream; Or how we learned to stop worrying and love plastic — surgery and money. Philip K. Howard on how America is choking on laws of our own making. An interview with Alfred McCoy, convener of the global “Empires in Transition” project, on four scenarios for the coming collapse of the American Empire (and part 2). How to keep track of our crumbling empire? Let's put occupied countries on our coins.
