Leigh Eric Schmidt

Leigh Eric Schmidt is a professor of religion and politics at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author of Village Atheists: How America’s Unbelievers Made Their Way in a Godly Nation.

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Thanksgiving, a Celebration of Inequality

For decades, Gilded Age populists and secularist crusaders criticized the holiday’s gospel of abundance.
- Leigh Eric Schmidt
- November 22, 2016