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How Faith Creates Societies May 2006

Table of contents

BIRD'S EYE
Faithful Community Life
By Karl Zinsmeister
In America, religion knits people and communities together.
SCAN
Short News and Commentary
By Kevin Hasson, Marilyn Penn, Thomas Rickeman, Dave Cloud, Juliana Geran Pilon, and David Schaefer
Who says faith has to be private? Tell it like it is. Our healthy car industry. Senators buck the odds. Genocide over: They're all dead. Can trauma bring a nation together?
SIDELIGHTS
Mirth and madness
Edited by Brandon Bosworth
Cheating journalists. A $295,000 belly ache. Phony gays. Middle-class soldiers. Movie attendance fades.
INDICATORS
Numbers, etc.
By Ben Dudley
Christians in unlikely places. Religious schools. Organic luxury.
"LIVE" WITH TAE
"Live" with John Shelton Reed
America’s most idiosyncratic yet iconic region—the South—has no interpreter who is more knowledgeable (or entertaining) than this Republican academic.
TRANSCRIPT
Don’t Impose Foreign Law on Americans
By Antonin Scalia
Beware foreign law, warns Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
IN REAL LIFE
The Making of a Cadet
By Blake Hurst
Blake Hurst discusses what it's like to be the father of a cadet.
GEOPOLITICS
Eye of the Beholder
By Victor Davis Hanson
Unacceptable dangers are in the eye of the beholder.
BEAT THE PRESS
Partial-news Distortion
By Chris Weinkopf
The establishment media distort the partial-birth abortion debate.
FLASHBACK
The Taming of Rogue Island
By Bill Kauffman
Rhode Island's journey to the Republic.
FORWARD OBSERVER
The New Nativism
By James K. Glassman
Is there a new nativism in the air?
ENTERPRISING
Sino-California
By Jane Mack-Cozzo
Tour a very Chinese corner of California.
THE TUBE
Why Tony Soprano Must Die
By James Lileks
There isn't any other option.
BOOK TALK
Reviews of New Books
By Blake Hurst and Brandon Bosworth
Hurst reviews Rod Dreher's Crunchy Cons. Bosworth worries over the dawning of Islamofascism in Europe.  
DIGEST
Summaries of Important Research
Edited by Brandon Bosworth
Our shrinking underclass. China versus Japan. Right question, wrong answer. Energy close to home. Hidden tax costs.
OPINION PULSE
The Latest Survey Data
Edited by Karlyn Bowman
A praying nation.
Feature articles
A Civil Religion
By Rodney Stark
How Christianity created free and prosperous societies.
Washington's Faith and the Birth of America
By Michael Novak, Jana Novak
At several crucial junctures, it was George Washington who willed our nation into unified existence. And though few historians have acknowledged it, much of this accomplishment rested on his Christian faith.
Puritanism Lives
By David Gelernter
There's no denying the strongly Christian character of America.
Small Town Religion
By Bart Hinkle
How megachurches create micro-intimacy.
A Community of Faith
By Chris Weinkopf
America has a growing string of counterculture towns where religion, traditional culture, and family life are taken very seriously. Welcome to one of them.
Nuclear Plus
By William Tucker
Start with uranium, add a pinch of solar, and you have a recipe for success