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.
Latest articles by Samuel Goldman
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The Texas debacle reveals the perverse consequences of judicializing abortion
opinion This is what happens when legislatures are rendered powerless by the courts
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Americans just want their schools left alone
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Beware the Rambo narrative of Afghanistan
opinion The reason America failed was not because warriors were betrayed by the suits in Washington
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Biden chooses the wrong Bible verse
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Harvard's new chaplain is an atheist. Is that a contradiction?
opinion What the rise of humanism reveals about a university founded by Puritans
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Afghanistan collapsed. U.S. alliances won't.
opinion Why the fall of Kabul is unlikely to damage America's relations with the rest of the world
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The problem with academic funding, in 1 ironic scandal
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Should the census really ask about race and sexuality?
opinion These questions undermine the survey's constitutional purpose
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The Orwell Foundation gives in to cancel culture
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Have the parties switched sides on patriotism?
opinion Today, you might be more likely to hear "love it or leave it" from a liberal
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Israel's Olympic hero can't get married, but that may soon change
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How American Jews lost by winning
opinion On the triumph and the tragedy of the American Jewish story
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Trump's little win in Ohio
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How the WASPs won by losing
opinion Even though their accents and rituals have become punchlines, the WASPs' legacy is still with us
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You're paying Obama to party like a rockstar
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American indifference to Cuba is the end of an era
opinion So closes an expansive vision of American foreign policy that extends back to 1898
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Trump's failure in a Texas runoff means nothing else ... yet
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Fertility is the real culture war
opinion What the pandemic baby bust reveals about our fears
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PayPal recklessly forays into regulating speech
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Florida is the GOP's alternative to California
opinion Goodbye, Golden State. Hello sunshine!
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The pandemic killed the common good
opinion On the death of one of America's favorite ideas
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The polls don't work — and that's a good thing
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Mainline Protestantism is America's phantom limb
opinion Mainline Protestantism is dying. Will American Christianity survive?
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Peter Thiel's implausible populists
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