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Paul Schrader’s “First Reformed” Depicts Death Struggle Between Hope and Despair

By Peter Laarman

…nd they are in a death struggle with each other. It is a huge gang battle, using well-meaning lawyers and policemen and clergymen as their front, controlling papers, means of communication, and enrolling everybody in their armies. (May I suggest that the spirit of Bill McKibben hovers over “First Reformed” as well: the Bill McKibben who first warned us 30 years ago about what climate change was about to unleash.) Because the environmental theme is…

Trump May Be “a Big Fan of Hindu,” But Hindus Are Running—and Winning—as Democrats

By Murali Balaji

…ed to engage with voters in every corner of the district. That’s why we’re using creative strategies, like registering new voters outside of a screening for the movie Black Panther.” Jois isn’t the only one with strong odds to win in November. Hindu Americans Aruna Miller and Sri Kulkarni are also earning national praise for their campaigns in Maryland and Texas, respectively, with Miller now being targeted by Republicans in a smear campaign. As f…

So What if Psychedelics Are ‘Just’ Spiritual?

By Hollis Phelps

…t they consider to be the spiritual benefit of the experiences they offer. Using psychedelics isn’t so much recreational, in this sense, but a controlled spiritual practice. We’re probably all familiar with the standard psychedelics used for such purposes—LSD, psilocybin (“magic mushrooms”), mescaline (peyote), and now the ever-popular ayahuasca. But there are literally hundreds of lesser-known naturally occurring and synthetic psychedelics that m…

First Draft Of History Today Could Be Fox News Promo Tomorrow

By Lauri Lebo

…on the Texas Board of Education are successful at their long-range goal of using the public education system to rewrite history. If publishers kowtow to the board and rewrite their social studies textbooks to meet the new standards, what kids could someday learn about health-care reform might sound like watching an hour of Fox News. Kids might be instructed to learn to compare and contrast the landmark legislation to the Black Plague, the 9/11 att…

The Loneliness of Men: A Father’s Day Reflection

By Rita Nakashima-Brock

…all group discussions. The leader—I’ll call him “D.”— did all the talking, using the Bible to condemn gays as evil and insisting they should be in prison or shot. Halfway through the week, during an intense afternoon plenary conversation about sexism, a young woman told a harrowing and moving account of being raped. The room listened in silence to her account, until D. raised the only hand to speak. He stood and said, “I know how you feel!” The en…

Trump’s Magical Appeal: A Dated Anthropologist Offers Clues

By Elijah Siegler

…ugh are taken up with instances of practices that demonstrate this belief: using hair or nail clippings to control people, for example. In other words, Frazer imagined societies giving rise to rulers that were at once symbols of enormous vitality and profoundly susceptible to the possibility of some terrible invasion or contagion. In 2016, that picture is starting to look awfully familiar. Vitality and Contagion In a sentence that could have been…

Trump In Colorado: When the “Facts” Are No Longer Checkable

By Paul Harvey

…y blue. So it’s not entirely clear why he’s coming at all. But if he is, rousing the base in El Paso County certainly makes political sense, even if a rising Latino vote is likely to derail his train pretty badly. In response to Trump’s visit, a group of faculty members here began drafting a public letter, pointing out our widespread revulsion to Trump’s dark and divisive rhetoric. The point was not to object to Trump’s visit per se. After all, th…

‘Christian Warriors’: Who Are The Hutaree Militia And Where Did They Come From?

By Chip Berlet

…they hope to see the Second Coming of Jesus Christ in their lifetime. The numbers vary over time and due to the ways questions are structured. It is clear, however, that more people are excited by this type of apocalyptic belief than can be explained by counting the actual parishoners sitting in the pews in fundamentalist churches. Most of these folks, however, are not considering actual criminal acts or violence. Brenda E. Brasher notes that apo…

Historian: Evangelical Trump Fandom is No Deviation

By Neil J. Young

…sat on their desks. For the most part, they were interpretive pragmatists, using various passages and parables to support a host of economic and political positions that they wanted to market as “evangelical” or “conservative” or even more generally as “Christian.” When business leaders like Chick-fil-A’s Samuel Truett Cathy or evangelical writer Zig Ziglar speak of their politics or business philosophies as “based” in the Bible, I detail what tha…

LGBT Victories at Olympics, Struggles in Brazil; Catholic Bishops Organizing Anti-Marriage Equality Protests in Mexico; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…traditional social mores has gone too far.” Kwong reports that in absolute numbers, “there is no deadlier place in the world to be an LGBT person than Brazil.” The anti-gay presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro, who approves of torture and endorsed beating children believed to be gay as a means of turning them heterosexual, has gained in popularity. The conservative congressman polled in fourth place in April, according to Foreign Policy. A congre…