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Challenging Plantation Capitalism: Rev. Barber’s Holy Cause

By Tefere Gebre

…ities, indeed. America’s labor movement once showed the world that working class people could lead middle class lives. But in our lifetime we have become among the world’s most unequal societies, with an economy defined by wage stagnation. Close and sober analysis shows that the key political and economic driver of this sinister transformation has been the continued power of those who are still able to maintain plantation capitalism in the South w…

What the Fight over Allah says about the Future of Evangelical Christianity

By Richard Flory

…itality and care and concern for “the other”— whether theological, gender, class or ethnic—evangelicalism overall will become even more white, straight and politically and religiously reactionary… 5) …which will result, in turn, in even greater numbers of young people defecting from the religion they grew up in. Most will then claim no religious identity (even though they may still believe in God), while a few will move on to other Christian tradi…

The People’s Temple, the Black Church, and the Tragic Legacy of Jonestown

By Anita Little

…ally what anchored the movement. It was the investment of everyday working-class and middle-class African-Americans but also the investment of black politicians, of black power brokers, of black activists. You have said that Jim Jones fashioned himself as the “ultimate white savior.” Why do you think he felt this draw to proselytizing African-Americans, black women especially? Part of his personal lore was that his father was a klansman, and he wo…

The Pastoral is the Political: Let’s Stop Hyde-ing

By Harry F. Knox

…sary later this month. Hyde could not attack the rights of rich and middle-class women, so he targeted poor women. “I certainly would like to prevent, if I could legally, anybody having an abortion: a rich woman, a middle-class woman or a poor woman,” he said at the time. “Unfortunately, the only vehicle available is the . . . Medicaid bill.” However we feel about abortion, we can all agree that we should not withhold medical care just become some…

Kim Davis, County Clerk, is Not a Person

By Ivan Strenski

…s they no longer hold smacks of feudalism. Is this how democracies end and class societies began, with a person’s civic role identity attached indelibly to his or her moral person? No need to worry about an Eichmann scenario of claiming freedom of moral responsibility because one was just doing one’s job. Both as a legal fiction and as a real person, Eichmann identified with a job that was itself immoral and unjust. Giving out marriage licenses is…

Anti-Gay Evangelicalism is the Norm: A Less Rosy Take on the Evangelical “Tipping Point”

By Chrissy Stroop

…Christian School essentially forbade its students from even attending. As class of ’99 Colonial graduate Jennifer Berry related to me in a Facebook exchange, “I did get the distinct impression they disapproved of Billy Graham in particular for his association with Martin Luther King, Jr.” Does that make my high school “evangelical” and hers “fundamentalist”? We’re talking more about matters of degree than kind. Jennifer and I actually went to the…

25 Things You Can Blame Muslims For

By Haroon Moghul

…o (and 1-9, too), spread to Europe. This is why, in the Arab world, Arabic numbers are called ‘Indian numbers,’ and why, in the West, ‘Indian numbers’ are called ‘Arabic numbers.’ In India they’re just known as numbers. No matter what they’re called, I think we can all agree they make life a lot easier. 2. Coffee Muslims invented coffee, and coffee is a good thing, and no good thing ever dies. At best it goes cold. In fact, one of the reasons coff…

Georgetown Poverty Summit Impoverished on Women in More Ways Than One

By Patricia Miller

…credit and the need for employment to stabilize communities and the middle class, there wasn’t a single mention of the growing consensus about the devastating impact of unintended pregnancy on poor women and concrete solutions to address it. Instead, discussion of solutions mainly focused on the proper balance between the welfare state and public investment and “free market” solutions to poverty. When Dionne did tentatively raise the issue of “fam…

Stephen King Appeals to Gun Advocates’ Individual Responsibility

By Elizabeth Drescher

…boy who takes a gun to his algebra class, kills his teacher, and holds his class hostage, was named as among sources of inspiration in four high school gun violence cases between 1988 and 1997. After the last case, King pulled the novel from publication. Although he insists that he never apologized for writing it, “and never would,” King does acknowledge that the four psychologically troubled youths who cited Rage, “found something in my book that…

White Rockers in Search of Soul Salvation

By Paul Harvey

…lencamp’s small-town, but both had little hope of uniting audiences across class lines in the way that Springsteen does. (People don’t show up for Mellencamp and scream out demands for “Small Town,” the way they congregate en masse at Madison Square Garden for Springsteen and demand “Hiding in the Backstreets.”) And now, for No Better Than This, Mellencamp is following Springsteen and numerous others, in moving into the realm of roots music, or Am…