Chris Lehmann

Little Churches Everywhere: California’s Evangelical Conservatism Little Churches Everywhere: California’s Evangelical Conservatism

As contradictory as the gospel truths of California's digerati are the dogmas of West Coast evangelicalism, a melding of Jefferson and Jesus.

Clay Shirky's Cognitive Surplus is the latest monotonous revery about the Internet social revolution. Evgeny Morozov punctures that bubble.

In Griftopia Matt Taibbi argues that America has been corrupted by the merger of crime and policy, of stealing and government.

Taylor Branch and a president's prodigious appetite for vindication before the bar of history.

British author Jonathan Coe departs from grand social transformations and turns to the domestic sphere in The Rain Before It Falls.

An account of the most recent installment in the nation's sick love affair with literary exhibitionists.