Sublime

The most lasting influence of the Promise Keepers movement may well have been the market it spawned.

The resorts and golf courses and budget luxury—a hotel style first innovated on Tybee Island, Georgia—have creeped up on Sea Island after Sea Island. This was where the forty acres and a mule were promised. And where, after emancipation, the formerly enslaved tried out a collective model of ownership, something that we clunkily call “socialism,” be

established the President’s Commission on the Status of Women,

The narrative of Free America shaped the parameters of acceptable thinking for Smart America. Free trade, deregulation, economic concentration, and balanced budgets became the policy of the Democratic Party. Culturally it was cosmopolitan, embracing multiculturalism at home and welcoming an increasingly globalized world. Its donor class on Wall Str

Great men—and they were men—were once regular people, separated from the masses by steely character. Conwell preached the American virtues of innovation, pragmatism, and self-reliance dipped in bronze. Modern business simply tested every Christian’s nature. Conwell’s Wall Street gospel agreed with the unfettered accumulation by the nation’s first m

Black metaphysical Christianity entwined racial uplift with the power of the mind.

there is clear resonance between the counterculture’s pursuits of authenticity and conservative evangelicalism. Rick became deeply aware of the ways that the age of authenticity placed each individual on their own journey, a voyage to finding meaning and purpose, one that emphasizes individualism and the affirmation of ordinary life.