Survey Reveals Attitudes of White Working-Class Men

The column series Sightings lives week by week. In my other life as a historian for 60 years, I have lived by 250- and 500-year chunks of American life. My colleagues and I know that you cannot write religious history, the history of religions and of religious people...

Survey’s Religious Findings May Have Devilish Details

The latest British Social Attitudes Survey is interesting, though perhaps not quite as informative as its compilers believe.   Religious faith, they claim, has declined sharply in Britain over the last two decades. Now only 50 percent of people describe themselves as...