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The Question of Evil: Politicians Weigh In

By Mark Gstohl

…surprising that McCain and his audience, comprised of persons who could afford to buy $500 tickets, would frame a discussion about evil in terms of America versus Islam. McCain’s response contains several problematic assumptions. The first assumption is that America is good. Perhaps my experience as a professor at an HBCU, historically black college or university, has forced me to understand how atrocities against humanity have occurred in a so-ca…

Necessary Sacrifice: Sundance, Mormon Movies, and the Race to Oscar Night

By Kathryn Lofton

…on. Every film included the same slow start, with an unflappable camera recording the quotidian: two African American cousins find work clearing a white man’s post-Katrina bungalow; a muscleman hefts barbells and stares at himself in the mirror; a Finnish farm wife tugs in crops and cleans stables; a set of Chinese-American sisters dress for a family portrait. This creeping start ends with a crash: a cousin slaughters the white boss with a child’s…

Rage Against the New Age Machine: Three Days at the Osho International Meditation Resort

By Diane Winston

…the retreat center’s enticing wares were culled from esoterica worldwide. Lord Buddha had a Bodhi tree, but Osho’s clientele could choose from tarot cards, horoscopes, aromatherapies, kabbalah classes, tantra and oh so much more. Yet just as Osho, the center, was coming into its own, Osho, the man, died—too soon to savor a renewed enthusiasm for his teachings. By the 1990s, his mix-and-match style reflected Western tastes—it was spiritual but not…

The ‘Freedom Convoy’ is Inspired by a Biblical Account of Divine Massacre: Welcome to the Jericho March

By Thomas Lecaque

…d that this dystopia serves to establish the dictatorship of the New World Order and totally erase every trace of Our Lord Jesus Christ from society, from history and from the traditions of peoples.” The elements of spiritual warfare—repeatedly deployed by Christian nationalist groups before in service of Trump and elsewhere—on the borderline of where it crosses over into physical violence, the Jericho Marches, the violent commentary supporting it…

Pope Tweeted into Retirement

By Rachel Wagner

…in the early nineties for most people consisted largely of acquiring plane tickets, reading relatively static documents, and emailing acquaintances. By 2004, the year before John Paul died, search engines had become sophisticated and powerful, and the immensely popular online world Second Life was in its third year. MySpace had appeared the year before, and Mark Zuckerberg was feverishly writing the code that would become Facebook. YouTube was ju…

Bonnaroo: The Meeting Ground

By E. David Morgen

…come, most of them will rattle off the name or two of a band, or tell you a story about how an old friend asked them to go, or will give a vague, noncommittal answer about “fun.” What they have done, however, has been to come to an extraordinary social space in order to experience patterns of life that are, at their core, deeply mundane. At a time of global mobility and technological saturation, five chairs in a circle might be the most radical s…

When Blasphemy Was a Riot (But Didn’t Cause One)

By Sophie Gherardi

…he Untouchables), which came out almost a year ago and sold twenty million tickets in France (and nearly as many abroad). Intouchables is a funny and moving comedy, but as politically correct a story as you’ll find: a black young man bordering on delinquency is hired by a tetraplegic wealthy man to be his assistant-nurse-chauffeur. They have a ball together doing crazy—and sometimes nasty—things, and save each other from an apparently inexorable f…

Huckabee Channels Rushdoony

By Julie Ingersoll

…osophy of history, leaves no other way to understand it—and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Huckabee seems to be selling tickets on the Titanic….

Answers in Genesis Seeks Tax Breaks for New Theme Park

By Lauri Lebo

…announcement which has raised the eyebrows of constitutional watchdogs. According to the Courier-Journal: Gov. Beshear spokeswoman Kerri Richardson declined to answer questions Tuesday about possible incentives for the project. The developers are seeking incentives under the Kentucky Tourism Development Act, which allows up to 25 percent of the cost of a project to be recovered. Under the law, the state each year returns to developers of approved…

The Sacred and the Dead: Three Ways to American Beauty

By Aaron K. Kerr

…ve got a dollar boys, lay it on the line Hand me my old guitar, pass the whiskey round Won’t you tell everybody you meet That the Candyman’s in town” This is the grateful seduction, sometimes for good, many times for ill, but real any way you slice it. Two more times for the Dead to, in the words of bassist Phil Lesh, “suck the last dance right out of you…” How much are those tickets to the very last gigs at Soldier Field this weekend going for? F…