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The Radical Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Left’s Challenge Today

By Peter Laarman

…alled these “strategic hamlets”), and its indiscriminate use of napalm and Agent Orange to lay waste to the land and its people, killing millions of noncombatants in three countries (Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia). King broadens his critique of this war into a sobering look at how a country—ours—that once claimed to stand for revolutionary ideals became the ally of dictators and tyrants and counterrevolutionary forces everywhere. He cites examples o…

The End of Roe and School Prayer: America is Not Ready to Be a Christian Nation

By Andrew L. Seidel

…reedom. In Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, the court could permit an agent of the state to use the machinery of the state to impose his personal religion on other people’s children. A football coach at a public high school gathered students at the 50-yard line for a post-game pep talk and prayer circle. The students felt pressured to join him. At every step in the litigation, the school district tried to accommodate the coach—to let him pray…

How Belief in Moscow as ‘The New Rome’ Explains Kirill’s Astonishing Declaration That ‘Russia Has Never Attacked Anyone’

By Katherine Kelaidis

…ut is (like the baptized Rome) a divinely chosen baptizing, Christianizing agent in an immoral world. For example, since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the controversial Cypriot bishop Metropolitan Neophytos of Morphou, probably most famous in the West for claiming that women who enjoy anal sex have gay children, declared his support for the Russian invasion as a necessary purging of the Earth on account of the fact that we live in an age with “…

If the Media Are Reluctant to Properly Label the GOP’s Racist, Christian Nationalist Ideologies, We’ll Have Trouble Hanging on to Democracy

By Annika Brockschmidt

…up and repurposing racist, antisemitic conspiracy theories isn’t simply an agent of intolerance. Falsely understood journalistic “neutrality,” the refusal to spell out what euphemisms used by conservative activists mean, leads to a funhouse mirror effect; it distorts the reality of a democracy under attack from the right by engaging in both-sides-ism, which appears in that same article on Rufo: “He has emerged at the front of another explosive cul…

‘Enchanted New York’ Offers a Journey Through the City’s Magical History — With Some Mystifying Oversights

By Gordon Haber

…over the dense” (his italics). According to Dann, “spirit is the superior agent, so all activity that works directly with spiritual forces and beings is inherently magical.” With such a vague definition, it’s not surprising that the author sees Manhattan as swimming in magic. He starts his journey with George Washington’s 1789 inauguration at Federal Hall. Apparently the first president himself was a magical actor with his frequent references to…

Bannon’s “Alt-Facts” Satan

By Spencer Dew

…in Chicago, or that a protestor at one of his own rallies was actually an agent of ISIS. When commentators on the right cautioned, during the campaign, that Trump’s statements should be taken seriously but not literally, they were laying the groundwork for the birth of alt-facts out of a language of hyperbole which was simultaneously a language of smokescreen and plain-spoken statements that could always be partially retracted as exaggeration, as…

Even if Biden Wins Will We Reckon With ‘Virtuous Republic Syndrome,’ the Persistent Belief that America is a Blessed Nation?

By Peter Laarman

…about forever, of a very large share of the Black people living here, now numbering 42 million. As Malcolm X pointed out decades ago, it’s impossible to regard the United States as a nation of laws when those laws are very often suspended in the case of Black people. Malcolm believed, correctly, that a nation choosing to be only conditionally lawful cannot really be regarded as lawful at all—and should certainly stop its boasting about equal just…

What a Turn-of-the-Century Anti-Abortion and Contraception Crusader Reveals About GOP Efforts to Ban Abortion Pills by Mail

By Steven K. Green

…founder of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice and a special agent for the US Post Office who mounted a nationwide crusade to suppress the circulation of anything he personally found to be morally reprehensible. He often claimed he was merely performing God’s will in an ongoing war against sin. Using an 1873 federal law that he wrote (the “Comstock Act”), he used his authority to seize objectionable material and prosecute people for…

Almost-Blockbuster Netflix Series ‘The Family’ Exposes a Christian Network Whose God Is Power

By Peter Laarman

…ne American democracy through its embrace of people like convicted Russian agent Butina. But I digress. Thanks to Doug Coe’s astonishing prestidigitation skills, it would seem that there’s really nothing to see here. Every last one of The Family’s supporters and apologists who speaks on camera swears on a stack of unread Bibles that there can’t be anything nefarious about just a bunch of guys (and it is almost all guys) getting together to pray an…

How the FBI Aided and Abetted the Rise of White Christian Nationalism — An Interview

By Bradley Onishi

…” And Hoover did that in a couple ways. The first thing he did was to have agents sign what he called a “law enforcement pledge” that said in part that agents would commit to being “soldiers” who would “wage vigorous warfare against the enemies of my country, of its laws, and of its principles.” They were also meant to act as “ministers.” And Hoover makes sure that his agents are cultivated this way by putting them through a series of religious ex…