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Operative Words

Behind the campaign curtain

Snuffed Torch

Can the Olympic myth survive?

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What happens if Donald Trump returns to the White House?

Molly Worthen

Molly Worthen is a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her most recent book is Apostles of Reason: The Crisis of Authority in American Evangelicalism (Oxford University Press, 2013).

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Molly Worthen

Public Peace through Private Gods

Canada has always put cultural coexistence before religious free expression May 2014
In 1987, the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission approved the country’s first religious cable channel, Vision TV. The CRTC had rejected many applications before this: Christian applicants hoped to broadcast American-style televangelism, but they had run aground on the CRTC’s requirement that religious programming include a diversity of faith-based views. Vision TV, by contrast, made multiculturalism its brand…