My forthcoming book Kingdoms of This World: How Empires Have Made and Remade Religions (Baylor University Press, 2024) focuses on the history of empires, and specifically their religious dimensions.

I studied British history in college and grad school and am struck by the parallels between the British Empire in days of ...

Empire’s don’t collapse; they commit inevitable suicide by destroying their primary sources of wealth: respect and industry. The American empire has existed since July 4, 1776 when it was declared as ...

The author’s add-on is public choice: Pentagon, contractors, districts, allies, think tanks, and the press get concentrated gains from the status quo while costs are spread thin. Culture makes that ...

Maite joined the AS USA in 2021, bringing her experience as a research analyst investigating illegal logging to the team. Maite’s interest in politics propelled her to pursue a degree in international ...

Jim Bakker turned religious intimacy into an American empire—and showed how faith, fame, fraud and reinvention could share the same stage.

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NMAHMAI copy Purchased with Adopt-a-Book funds. On the Tropic of Cancer: transitions and transformations in the U.S. imperial state / Alfred W. McCoy, Francisco A. Scarano, and Courtney Johnson -- ...

IN 1838, Abraham Lincoln observed that any truly existential danger to the United States of America would not come from military threats abroad. Pointing to America’s enviable geographic position, he ...

I have written quite a bit on Freemasonry through the years, including several posts at this site. That material has a renewed significance for me given my present interests in empire, specifically ...