The July 2011 edition of the Journal of American History includes David Hollinger’s article, based on his Presidential Address, “After Cloven Tongues of Fire: Ecumenical Protestantism and the Modern American Encounter with Diversity.” In it, Hollinger describes the social thought of those mid-century Protestants, whom he calls “ecumenical Protestants,” who quit thinking in particularistic Christian and American [...]

I had a high school theater teacher once who told a story about a student delivering an oral report to the class on David Mamet. Throughout the presentation, the student kept pronouncing the playwright’s name David Mamay. The teacher had to sit through David Mamay this and David Mamay that for ten or fifteen minutes. [...]