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The Empathy Paradox: What #MeToo Misses

What even a post-Weinstein conversation is not saying about sexual assault

Puppeteering and Electioneering

A look back on the 2021 campaign

Missing in Action

When people turn their backs on public office

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…