Tony Hisgett
Northern Ireland
Peace, “Process,” and Liberal Politics

What the UK general election suggests about the future of Northern Ireland.

Historical Troubles
Remembering Edgar Graham

Why can’t politicians in Northern Ireland agree that killing lawyers is wrong?

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Religion & Politics
Evangelicalism and Its Electoral Discontents

Attempts to explain Evangelical politics face a simple but vexing question: Does Evangelicalism even exist as a unitary movement?

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Decommissioning History
Remembering the Past in Northern Ireland

Twenty years after the Good Friday Agreement, the guns are off the street, but history and memory continue to be weaponized.

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Northern Ireland
Nationalist Options

A Sinn Fein politician’s fall from grace highlights the dilemmas nationalist politicians face in Northern Ireland.

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Border Skirmish
The Future of Northern Ireland: Brexit and EU Borders

The United Kingdom’s Leave vote is posing enormous, possibly intractable problems for both Northern Ireland and the Republic.

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Union Jacked
Pride and Prejudice in Northern Ireland

The Conservative-DUP pact will likely be an unstable one, but not necessarily for the reasons we’ve been hearing from the British media.

Religious Freedom
America’s Village Atheists

How the history of atheism in America illuminates the country’s religious, and irreligious, future.

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European Disunion
Brexiting Britain

The futures of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland are still up in the air.

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Religion in America
Holy Nation: America, Born Again

American Evangelicalism transformed its country—but only at the cost of being hollowed out itself.

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