While Louis Farrakhan captures headlines, the lesser-known W. D. Mohammed has a large following among African-American Muslims—and a warmer view of the United States. Can he help make America’s immigrant Muslims more at home in their adopted country?
The case against TV used to be a slam-dunk: guilty as charged by reason of inanity. The inanity still abounds—it wouldn’t be TV otherwise—but so do a lot of other qualities that often make the couch in the den a fitter habitation for an adult than the stadium seat in a multiplex.
Seven years ago, a U.S.-led military intervention ended ethnic violence in Kosovo. International peacekeepers have patrolled the province ever since. Now Kosovo has reached a turning point. Without America’s continued leadership, Kosovo could reignite, spreading new conflict throughout the Balkans.
The spectacular resurgence of evangelical Christianity has obscured the fact that there’s another side to the American religious coin. Spiritual seekers, from New Age animists to sober U.S. senators, have a long and honorable lineage in American life—and the potential to inspire a rebirth of liberal politics.
China remains a great puzzle, handicapped by its own uneasy history and heading towards an uncertain future.
One key to China's future lies in its people's attraction to a Confucian ideal.
The life of prominent Chinese sociologist Fei Xiaotong reveals a great deal about the history of Chinese reform.
Chinese nationalism is being pulled in two directions, more democratic at home but more assertive abroad.
In the pleasant haze of half-remembered history, the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment is surrounded by images of determined suffragist on the march over the protests of buffoonish men. The reality was a lot more interesting than that.