Samuel Goldman
Samuel Goldman is a national correspondent at TheWeek.com. He is also an associate professor of political science at George Washington University, where he is executive director of the John L. Loeb, Jr. Institute for Religious Freedom and director of the Politics & Values Program. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard and was a postdoctoral fellow in Religion, Ethics, & Politics at Princeton University. His books include God's Country: Christian Zionism in America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018) and After Nationalism (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021). In addition to academic research, Goldman's writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and many other publications.
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A train to nowhere
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Appointments and interpretation won't fix the Supreme Court
opinion The legitimacy problems long preceded Trump and Biden
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How China could lose the political Olympics
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We used to be a proper country. Now we argue about Whoopi Goldberg.
opinion How Americans lost even a vestigial capacity for seriousness about real problems
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COVID is the perfect excuse to finally axe the State of the Union
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The rise and fall and rise again of the libertarian moment
opinion Libertarianism is back, with a new look
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If the economy's so great, why do we feel so lousy?
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Breyer, Kagan, and the fading of 20th-century American Jewish meritocracy
opinion The latest SCOTUS exit symbolizes the declining prominence of a certain kind of American Jew
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Barry Bonds doesn't need the Hall of Fame
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The show The Gilded Age could have been
opinion Julian Fellowes' new show should be the peak of peak TV. Instead it's 'Mean Girls' with corsets.
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Transparency is good, but it won't end the CRT debate
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Moderates still don't understand why conservatives voted for Trump
opinion It's not just 'wokeness' and social media. It's order, fairness, and basic governance.
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Americans don't trust experts or populists. What's left?
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A murder in New York and the dilemma of deinstitutionalization
opinion The dangerous gap in Democratic leaders' response to rising urban disorder
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Will 2022 bring another Miracle on Ice?
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The most compelling case against mail-in voting has nothing to do with fraud
opinion A skeptic's case for traditional voting
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Boris Johnson and elites' bizarre oblivion to their own pandemic indecency
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What Republicans should promise voters in their first 100 days
opinion Imagining what a 2022 GOP agenda might be
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I stand athwart slobs, yelling 'stop'
opinion How COVID accelerated our shift toward informality
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Banning Trump from re-election is a constitutional pipe dream
opinion Democrats will need more than the 14th Amendment to keep Trump out of office
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The Capitol riot's roots in the New Left
opinion How the left's 1960s playbook gave us the Capitol riot
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Doom and gloom in the groves of academe
opinion 2 decades of change in the American university
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The myth of the greatest generation
opinion How great were the greatest?
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Biden's approval is down. Student debt forgiveness won't help.
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