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Dr. Miles Smith IV is a historian of the American South and native Carolinian. Follow him on Twitter @ivmiles.
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Dr. Miles Smith IV is a historian of the American South and native Carolinian. Follow him on Twitter @ivmiles.
Miles SmithCulture
If our political society is like a forest, then attempts to clear cut it will do to us what they do to forests: leave them poorer and sicker.
Miles SmithHistoryCurrent Politics
The Confederacy's attempt to preserve a race-based caste system was futile. So why are sun belt evangelicals trying to revive hateful old ideologies?
Miles SmithCurrent PoliticsFormation
American evangelicals have lost all sense of the 'tragic' and the movement is being consumed as a result.
Miles SmithBook Reviews
It is almost certainly not coincidental that many exvangelicals have come from syncretic, evangelical charismatic backgrounds.
Miles SmithFeaturedHistoryCurrent Politics
In the February of 1824, politically active Calvinists across the northern United States finally got their wish for a godly devout president who made the American republic a more explicitly Christian and righteous nation. The House of Representatives chose John […]
Miles SmithFeaturedHistoryCurrent Politics
Earlier this year Philip Gorski and Samuel Perry published The Flag + the Cross, a sociological expose on what they identified as the threat to American democracy from what they called white Christian nationalism. It’s a work of sociology more […]
Miles SmithFeaturedEvangelicalismCulture WarCurrent Politics
Over the past several years the topic of Christian nationalism has occupied the minds of Evangelical intellectuals and pastors. No less than half a dozen books have been written on the subject in the past year. Three of them have […]
Miles SmithPoliticsFeaturedHistory
Jake Meador has offered a thoughtful and challenging piece concerning the relationship between Christianity and the United States. Meador’s most salient point is that he has “become very suspicious of accounts of Christianity’s place in American life that leave out […]
Miles SmithFeaturedHistory
The Virginian founding father and arch-liberal feared that Calvinists, not Catholics, would be the undoing of his experiment in political liberalism.
Miles SmithFeaturedCurrent Politics
By Miles Smith In 1781 Thomas Jefferson left the office of governor of Virginia and wrote the sole book-length work attributed to him. In Notes on the State of Virginia, Jefferson reflected on what he knew was the great moral […]
Miles SmithFeaturedCurrent Politics
Even slave-holding southern Protestants recognized that breaking up families was a great evil. What does it say about evangelicals today that we do not?
Miles SmithSocial TrendsBook Reviews
Reviewing Archbishop Charles Chaput's "Strangers in a Strange Land"