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To Fight White Supremacy We Must Resist Essentialism: The Author Responds

By Andrea R. Jain

…not try to connect with the public. The question of whether or not to make contact is generally met with a blatant prohibition or, at the very least, with ominous warnings. Those of us who nonetheless choose to live dangerously—to do public scholarship—challenge this model because we are convinced that connecting with the public, though admittedly dangerous, is a potential source of power, a mode of dismantling dominant systems of oppression. It i…

Talking Salsa with Douglas Hofstadter, Enigmatic Author of Gödel, Escher, Bach

By Eliot Raynor

…hem. I’ve been very blessed by the fact that my books have brought me into contact with a remarkable, wonderful set of people. That’s one of the great things that have come to me through having written books—that I’ve met people who otherwise I wouldn’t have met. I wouldn’t have known these people. And I feel that’s a great, lucky thing. Those people initially knew me as the author of a book – but luckily they go way, way beyond that. On Human Con…

Republicans Face Showdown With Religious Right Over Dropped Abortion Bill

By Sarah Posner

…he bill, the Family Research Council sent out an email urging followers to contact their representatives to vote for the bill and “defend it on the House floor.” David Christensen, the group’s Vice President for Government Affairs, added, “The anniversary of Roe v. Wade is not the time to get weak kneed and Members need to hear from you.” Mollie Hemingway’s excoriation of the Republican leadership at The Federalist this morning signals the reactio…

American Fever: A Tale of Romance and Pestilence

By Michael A. Elliott

…f influenza viruses and research throughout the globe. The Danger of Human Contact Priscilla Wald, a literature professor at Duke, has written on what she calls the “outbreak narrative,” stories of disease in popular culture. As she explains, these stories always take on the social anxieties of their moment—from the anti-immigrant sentiment that surrounded Typhoid Mary to the contemporary concerns of globalization. The emergence of disease, she wr…

Romney Had No Clue as to Obama Ground Game

By Joanna Brooks

…affs and offices,” Beeson said. “They were literally creating a one-to-one contact with voters,” something that Romney did not have the staff to match. “Now I know”? Yes, that’s the sound of me dropping my cup of egg nog. Because Rich Beeson could have simply counted field offices to make the inference that something was going on—Obama had three to four times as many field offices as Romney in the swing states. Or could have simply counted the st…

“Reason to Worry”: An Anti-Semitism Scholar Opens Up on Trump, Misogyny and the Future of Anti-Judaism

By Michael Schulson

…itism often focus on Jews: what about Jewish history has brought them into contact with so much hate? Was it the money-lending? The refusal to convert to Christianity? Published in 2013, Anti-Judaism takes a different tack. The book is concerned less with Jews than with the idea of the Jew—a concept that has been deployed as a foil to Christian love, a symbol of global commerce, and much else. Nirenberg aims to provide an “account of the labor don…

Why It’s Heresy to Read the Bible Literally: An Interview with John Shelby Spong

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ntroversial. I don’t like being controversial. I get abused a lot in mail, phone calls and that sort of thing. I don’t enjoy that. But, if you are controversial in the public arena, the people who have given up on Christianity say, “My God, there must be something more to this story than I realized.” So, being controversial is my doorway to the generation of my own children. “The primary issue in the Christian church today is to get away from orig…

Mormons Prepare for WA Marriage Equality Fight

By Joanna Brooks

…asked them if the LDS Church was getting involved, and the staffer on the phone said, “We’re meeting with church leaders right this minute; they’re at lunch with Focus on the Family and [National Organization for Marriage-sponsored] Preserve Marriage Washington.” To this day, we don’t know whether it was local or general church leaders who met with Preserve Marriage Washington—we believe they were local leaders. But a reporter for the Boston Glob…

Safety Not Guaranteed

By Jeanne Carstensen

…no signal, which means no AP alerts, no Facebook, no Twitter—and no way to contact friends and family. Except for the radio, we’re cut off. And so is everyone else in the mass of humanity that lives and works below 39th Street. In the afternoon, after the worst of Sandy has departed for the north, I walk across Avenue B again into the Red zone. Some time during the night the East River, which is really part of the ocean, flooded over the boardwalk…

The Abandoned Orphanage: Hillary Clinton’s Mother Teresa Moment

By Jeff Sharlet and Kathryn Joyce

…r; that they had no literature to give us, nor any representative we could contact later; that they were a charity yes, but she couldn’t tell us in what way; and that, lastly, she had to hang up now. Clinton’s office would prove no more forthcoming. When contacted numerous times in 2006 for comment, Clinton’s representatives seemed distressed by the very line of questioning, as though the then-Senator’s good intentions should suffice. It’s a story…