One of the oldest insights of sociologists of religion is that religions and national governments are drawn to each other. Nevertheless, the kind of power necessary for governments of nations is the ...

People who study the societies of the world have never found one without a religion. Individuals may not believe in God, but in the long history of humanity, people in societies have almost always ...

Candidates understandably want to appeal to workers—after all they can't get elected without their votes. Yet, maybe because for many Washington politicians the most visible representations of ...

China’s influence operations and coercive diplomacy, as evidenced by actions in the United States, Britain, Canada, Japan, ...

When it comes to kings and queens I agree that, as Monty Python had it regarding King Arthur, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. I'm a skeptic.