"The real story of the massive meltdown of 2008 starts not in the late 20th century but in the early 17th." Like witch hunts? I thought. Intrigued, I read on. The authors identify four key Puritan ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. During the 2000 election campaign, there was a splendid moment when George Bush, who was sitting alongside Dick Cheney, pointed out a ...

In Dangerous Nation, Robert Kagan argues that the influence of Puritan New England in subsequent U.S. national development has been greatly exaggerated. McKenna has a very different take, and this ...

Margaret Atwood, whose dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale topped Amazon's bestseller list this week, has expressed concerns about shifting US values. She compared attitudes to women's rights to those ...

It helps a little—just a teeny-weeny bit?—to reflect there’s nothing new under the sun. As with America’s latest puritan episode: tight lips, smoldering eyes, icy rage against human hindrances to ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. On Thursday I will sit down for my first Thanksgiving in America in 12 years. Since 1996, I’ve been eating my ...