Selina O'Grady

Selina O'Grady is a journalist and historian. Her book <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/And-Man-Created-God-Conquests/dp/1843546965/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1343981558&sr=8-1">And Man Created God: Kings

The Gun and the Cross. The religion of America in John Ford, Mitt Romney and Clint Eastwood

There is something always moving about America's sense of its destiny. The speeches to the Republican convention were stirring with their appeals to the frontier, to justice and to the nation's special relationship with God. John Ford's minor western on the Mormon saga reminds us why we need to re

By Selina O'Grady

/ 7 Sep 2012

Olympian worship - can't we give up the gigantism of it?

"Bread and circuses" really was the formula the Roman emperors used to buy the social peace needed to exercise their own power. And not just the Romans - every ruler in all time has always sought to bask in the divine glories of communal spectacle. Can't we grow up and reject these ostentatious ve

By Selina O'Grady

/ 3 Aug 2012

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The Gun and the Cross. The religion of America in John Ford, Mitt Romney and Clint Eastwood

Olympian worship - can't we give up the gigantism of it?

Selina O'Grady