
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 abortionopinion This is what happens when legislatures are rendered powerless by the courts By Samuel Goldman Published opinion
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 Americans just want their schools left aloneTalking Point By Samuel Goldman Published Talking Point
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 Beware the Rambo narrative of Afghanistanopinion The reason America failed was not because warriors were betrayed by the suits in Washington By Samuel Goldman Published opinion
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 Biden chooses the wrong Bible verseTalking Point By Samuel Goldman Published Talking Point
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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 By Samuel Goldman Published opinion
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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 By Samuel Goldman Published opinion
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 The problem with academic funding, in 1 ironic scandalTalking Point By Samuel Goldman Published Talking Point
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 Should the census really ask about race and sexuality?opinion These questions undermine the survey's constitutional purpose By Samuel Goldman Published opinion
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 The Orwell Foundation gives in to cancel cultureTalking Point By Samuel Goldman Published Talking Point
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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 By Samuel Goldman Published opinion
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 Israel's Olympic hero can't get married, but that may soon changeTalking Point By Samuel Goldman Published Talking Point
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 How American Jews lost by winningopinion On the triumph and the tragedy of the American Jewish story By Samuel Goldman Published opinion
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 Trump's little win in OhioTalking Point By Samuel Goldman Published Talking Point
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 How the WASPs won by losingopinion Even though their accents and rituals have become punchlines, the WASPs' legacy is still with us By Samuel Goldman Published opinion
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 You're paying Obama to party like a rockstarTalking Point By Samuel Goldman Published Talking Point
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 American indifference to Cuba is the end of an eraopinion So closes an expansive vision of American foreign policy that extends back to 1898 By Samuel Goldman Published opinion
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 Trump's failure in a Texas runoff means nothing else ... yetTalking Point By Samuel Goldman Published Talking Point
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 Fertility is the real culture waropinion What the pandemic baby bust reveals about our fears By Samuel Goldman Published opinion
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 PayPal recklessly forays into regulating speechTalking Point By Samuel Goldman Published Talking Point
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 Florida is the GOP's alternative to Californiaopinion Goodbye, Golden State. Hello sunshine! By Samuel Goldman Published opinion
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 The pandemic killed the common goodopinion On the death of one of America's favorite ideas By Samuel Goldman Published opinion
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 The polls don't work — and that's a good thingTalking Point By Samuel Goldman Published Talking Point
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 Mainline Protestantism is America's phantom limbopinion Mainline Protestantism is dying. Will American Christianity survive? By Samuel Goldman Published opinion
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 Peter Thiel's implausible populistsTalking Point By Samuel Goldman Published Talking Point
