Every era, every decade, gets the Jesus it wants, even the Jesus it deserves.

During the Cold War, a lurid apocalyptic Lamb of God haunted baby-boomer imaginations. During the '90s, a culture-war Christ busily decreed against gay rights and Murphy Brown. In the last decade, a Da Vinci Messiah...

Fifty years ago, the richest Americans paid higher taxes than they do now, but the money funded interstate highways, public schools and science research that made the nation strong.

A tax rate of 50 percent or more on the wealthiest citizens wasn't called socialism. It was called national purpose. It...

A century ago, hell froze over: American socialists were getting elected to local office, with the help of Christian voters.

In some precincts, socialism attracted American voters as a biblical model of economics. Success was conspicuous in farm states like Oklahoma, where socialist aldermen and sheriffs won election in...