Jenna Weissman-Joselit, a visiting professor of Jewish History at Princeton University. She studies closely the relationship between the material culture and personal identity. She has authored a number of books, including The Wonders of America: Reinventing Jewish Culture, 1880-1950 (Henry Colt, 1994) which received the National Jewish Book Award in History, and A Perfect Fit: Clothes, Character, and […]

Charles Wallace is a chaplain and retired professor of religious studies at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon.

Peter Harle, a visiting lecturer, has taught a course on Religion and Food at Macalester College. Read a syllabus.

Read an interview with Daniel Sack, author of Whitebread Protestants: Food and Religion in American Culture (St. Martin’s Press, 2000) and associate director of the Material Religion Project.

Victor Davis Hanson is a fifth-generation Californian, a farmer, a classicist and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is the author of Mexifornia: A State of Becoming (Encounter Books, 2004), in which he argues that California is being transformed by illegal immigration from Mexico. Contact Hanson through the Hoover Institute’s public affairs office.

Wayne Cornelius is a distinguished professor emeritus of political science and U.S.-Mexico relations at the University of California at San Diego and the director emeritus of the university’s Center for Comparative Immigration Studies and is co-editor of Controlling Immigration: A Global Perspective (Stanford University Press, 2004).

Save Our Selves, or Secular Organizations for Sobriety, was founded in North Hollywood, Calif., in 1985 as an alternative to AA. The largest secular sobriety group in the world, it has 100,000 members, including believers who want to keep religion separate from recovery as well as atheists, secular humanists and non-Christians. It respects diversity, welcomes skepticism […]

LifeRing Secular Recovery International in Oakland, Calif., was founded in 1999 as a secular alternative to AA. LifeRing does not subscribe to any particular theory of alcoholism/addiction but is held together by a common commitment to abstinence.

Women for Sobriety in Quakertown, Pa., describes itself as the first national self-help program for women alcoholics. It was founded by the late Jean Kirkpatrick in 1975 with the belief that women with addictions had different psychological needs in recovery than men. This notion stemmed from the fact that at that time, men had better recovery […]