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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Do men read books about Mars while women prefer tales of Venus?
opinion Defining who reads what and why is not as simple as publishers seem to think
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Another standardized test bites the dust. Will standards follow?
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The bizarre and depressing spectacle of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
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The Supreme Court leak is a symptom of institutional breakdown
opinion Exposure of the draft abortion ruling puts the court’s politics on display
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The pretend proletariat
opinion Are the elites confusing themselves with labor?
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The bittersweet nostalgia of Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood
opinion Was 1969 the last good year?
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Biden needs to keep his mouth shut
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The irrelevance of the United Nations
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Universities are no place to think. Here's another idea.
opinion Can a new age of patronage restore the life of the mind?
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Ed Sheeran won his plagiarism case. That's good for the future of music.
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Exclusive colleges keep getting more exclusive. So what?
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Russia is hinting at peace. Here's why Ukraine shouldn't take it.
opinion There's a moral reason for Ukraine to keep fighting
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Will anyone be happy with a post-religious America?
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The petrifying return of nuclear anxiety
opinion Thinking the unthinkable, again
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In defense of debate
opinion How the debate about debate misunderstands debate
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Keep Russian dressing out of your beef with Putin
opinion Dostoyevsky, Swan Lake, and vodka are innocent!
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We're not quite an Idiocracy, but presidential speeches are getting dumber
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Why war in Ukraine means the end of the liberal world order
opinion With Russia’s invasion, the world’s ‘rules’ no longer apply
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How the U.S. can still win in the Ukraine crisis
opinion World War III is the worst scenario. What's the best?
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Trudeau's a hypocrite about the trucker protests. He's not the only one.
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Not everything is about Nazis
opinion Marjorie Taylor Greene's gazpacho gaffe proves we need new comparisons beyond the Holocaust
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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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