Philip Gorski is the Frederick and Laura Goff Professor of Sociology and Religious Studies and Chair of the Sociology Department at Yale University. His work focuses mainly on the complex interplay of religion and politics in early modern and modern Europe and North America. He is the author, most recently, of Flag and Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy. He is currently working on two books, one on the fragmentation of the sacred in the modern West, and another on how bad ontology makes for bad theory — and bad politics.
