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Scholars Upset With ‘1619 Project’ Must Abandon Vision of ‘America the Righteous’

By Peter Laarman

…d reporting for The Atlantic. Serwer also supplies needed backstory on the number of distinguished historians whom Wilentz solicited for his letter but who declined to sign his angry screed for all the right reasons.] Sean Wilentz has a distinguished CV. He comes from a distinguished family. I still find value in Chants Democratic, the 1984 Wilentz work on the formation of working class consciousness in New York during the late 18th and early 19th…

Magic v. Science: Doctor Who Part III

By Gabriel Mckee

…they do in order to survive. Because of this insight, the Doctor is not a classic vampire slayer, so much as an ecologist. He stops the Saturnynians for the same reason that environmentalists in North America combat the snakehead fish. Finally, it is fitting that Calvierri offers an alliance with the Doctor. Like the vampire, the Doctor is also an immortal outsider walking among us. He too has unnatural abilities and is alluring to the opposite s…

The Meaning of Make Believe (Why Religion Doesn’t Have to Be “Real”)

By Neil Ellingson

…th a consecrated object during what must have been a baptismal preparation class. He took a one-dollar bill out of his wallet, struck a match, and lit the perfectly good, perfectly legal tender on fire. It caught flame quickly, as if it had been ready for it. The priest held it by a corner over a small metal bowl that caught the black glowing flakes of paper ash, not dropping it until the last possible second, when it looked like there was no more…

SCOTUS ‘Right to Work’ Decision Especially Damaging to Women and People of Color

By Sikivu Hutchinson

…public sector has become one of the last bastions of security for working class people of color and women of color. For example, Black women are more likely to be employed in public-sector jobs than both white women and Black men, while making 60 cents to the dollar of white men. They also remain one of the most visible groups in public-sector union organizing. Janus will have long lasting repercussions for the workplace protections, living wage,…

Elena Kagan and her Socialist Thesis

By Janine Giordano Drake

…ethnicity? I see a huge chasm in this country between academic opinions on class and religion and the values lived and practiced by many poor whites in the flyover states. For example, any professional American historian could tell you that the ‘red-baiting’ of public figures is a long-held refuge of conservatives, going back over 100 years, but can they stop reporting that panders to this tactic? Any scholar of American Religion could easily refu…

The Top 10 (Non-Religious) Religious Films of 2017

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…to become part of the stories playing out on screen. For the white, middle-class, heterosexual male, a vast majority of big-budget films are designed to reaffirm that status. But a solid, and important, number of films slip out of those confines and light up by looking over the shoulder of a mute woman from the 1950s, of cloistered women from the 1960s, of Mexican boys in the technicolor land of the dead, and beasts at the edge of the human. We st…

Is Proselytizing Ever Okay? Are We All Proselytizing All The Time?

By Chrissy Stroop

…d States, where treatment was better, but they were still very much second-class citizens.) While the jury acquitted Mendel Beilis himself, its members made a point of insisting that they remained convinced the Christian murder victim in question had been the subject of a Jewish ritual murder. And then there was the Holocaust, the systematic murder of some six million Jews by the mostly Christian Nazis. https://twitter.com/cherriesandgin/status/14…

The Clenched Fist of Truthiness: Why Religion Won’t Fix This

By Daniel Schultz

…hing. And on and on it goes through the many different iterations of race, class, gender, and religion in America. Even the lack of faith reflects the cultural contingencies of social location, particularly of the highly educated, and those particularities show up in voting patterns. Faith, then, serves in many ways as the moral demarcator of in-group boundaries, the ideology of the tribes. Don’t kid yourself: we all have a tribe. That doesn’t mak…

Seeking Jobs, Beach Clean Up Workers Come From All Walks of Life

By Lauri Lebo

…said. People seeking jobs have come from all over the Gulf region. Middle-class plant workers who lost their jobs in the recession and convicted felons recently released from prison. Mothers and sons and uncles and nephews. The work is hard. There is no shade and when the heat gets too unbearable, they can’t run into the water to cool off. They are black, white and Hispanic. I guess Kumrits and Jones fill the demographic of designated hippies. Th…

Conservatives Stand Together for Anti-Gay Bigotry

By Sarah Posner

…tting the “attempt to. . . enshrine homosexual behavior as some protected class.” Potok emphasized that the SPLC’s decision to place a group on the list is not about criminality or violence, but is based on whether the groups in question “demonize other groups with falsehoods” or conspiracy theories. FRC, he added, has associated gay men with pedophilia, a known falsehood. TPM’s Evan McMorris-Santoro reported that the SPLC sees little difference…