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Novelist Ilija Trojanow on the utopian prerogative

Members of right-wing extremist Proud Boys group raised a wooden cross outside the state capitol building in Lansing, Michigan, on Jan. 6, 2021. An American flag and a Trump flag are in the background.

Crisis of faith: Christian nationalism and the threat to U.S. democracy

 A portrait of associate professor of English Poulomi Saha, who is standing with her arms crossed wearing a white T-shirt and a blue blazer. She has large eyeglasses and a short haircut.

In her course on cults, Poulomi Saha has students look beyond the headlines