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Herd Heroism in an Age of Rebels: The Cultural Roots of the Anti-Vaxxer Movement

By Michael Schulson

…ounds between 1975 and 1995. One of the authors of the study described the toll as “Jonestown in slow motion.” It’s not just Christian Scientists. Small church movements around the country reject modern medicine, generally substituting some kind of faith healing. Constitutional law gives the state opportunities to intervene on behalf of children in these households. As Offit chronicles, though, states often do not. To his credit, Offit doesn’t spi…

Betrayed at the Polls, Evangelicals of Color at a Crossroads

By Deborah Jian Lee

…icals of color to change course. But not everyone is leaving. As a growing number of minorities redefine their associations, many have chosen to see white evangelical spaces as their “mission field,” but not their source of spiritual nourishment. These days, SueAnn Shiah just gets angry during church sermons. Still, the Taiwanese American congregant at a conservative, white church in Nashville, remains committed to serving on the church’s racial j…

Holding Out for a Hero: New ID Book Aims to Save You From Despair of Evolution

By Kriti Sharma

…s and meaning of our lives; that our losses and disappointments take their toll on us; that we are sometimes lonely and afraid and full of doubt in the face of death and the wholly unknown; and that we sometimes want someone who can help, someone to reassure us our bodies and minds and world completely transform, and maybe utterly dissolve. Who is that person? For Axe, as for many others, the heroic savior is a strong man who admits no fear or unc…

Honoring and Renewing Dr. King’s Other, More Challenging, Dream — 55 Years Later

By Peter Laarman

…a level: in the struggle to get ahead in a winner-take-all culture, in the toll that struggle takes in damaging personal relations and susceptibility to addictions, in the deference shown to “superiors” and the contempt directed toward people further down in the pecking order. For many others, the violence of the American caste system is only too visible in the form of militarized policing and racist mass incarceration; brutal housing and educatio…

Meet the ‘Bronze Age Zionists’ — Far-Right Jews Embracing Fascism in the Wake of October 7

By Ben Lorber

…channel the id of Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza as its terrible death toll continues to rise. Right-wing Israeli and American Jewish right-wing leaders eschew 4chan for a larger political stage—but they too seek alliances with White Christian nationalist leaders, denigrate liberal Jews, and celebrate an ethos of muscular Judaism. They have no need for a niche internet subculture, because they possess a state apparatus, and aligned institution…

Double Helix: Religion Requires Memory; Memory-Killing Drugs Inspire Big Questions

By Arri Eisen

…tary, for example, what’s the potential downside to minimizing the psychic toll of war? More generally, altering one memory probably alters others—and doesn’t altering memories alter who we are? Were? Will be? Offloading the Pain Yes, you might say, relieved to escape the complexities of the situation, of course we should work to understand memory and develop drugs and other therapies so we can alleviate suffering: to prevent the suicide of a sold…

Sometimes Dialogue is Not the Answer and Neutrality is a Trap: An Interview with the Authors of ‘The Neutrality Trap’

By Chrissy Stroop

…ime that you wrote the book? Bernie: The overturning of Roe, the continued toll that guns take on the most vulnerable in our society, the ever darkening cloud on our future that climate change presents—all seem to reinforce our central point, which is that without disruption, connection alone won’t deal with our problems. But without a strategic approach to disruption, which also requires connecting across our differences, we won’t achieve system…

Why ‘Do You Believe in God?’ Is at the Heart of Our Religious Problem

By Michael Jerryson

…it is to talk about death, to plan for it, and to unpack its psychological toll. From this class and my further work, I became academically aware of how uncomfortable people in the United States are about death—and how their religious practices contribute to this discomfort. Since my terminal diagnosis, I’ve been able to draw upon my personal experiences to re-examine my research. Moreover, I’ve found that this diagnosis has become a vehicle to ac…

The Many, Not the Few: An Anthem for Occupy

By Elizabeth Drescher

…I knew the power in the words that I had written. And, in a world that was free of punishment for being yourself… I would have sung it at the top of my lungs. But I also didn’t want to do it out of disrespect. I did it because there was really no other option at that point. I had to do it. I had to forget about what could happen to me. I was guided by something bigger… I don’t know what it is… I can’t put a name to it… The whole thing was providen…

You’ve Been Warned: Reading Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America in the Trump Era

By Christopher Douglas

…he novel—named Philip Roth —describes the new social order as it takes its toll on his family and his Jewish neighborhood in Newark. The Lindbergh administration adopts a kind of liberal fascism, with programs to make Jews into “better Americans” by relocating families out of their neighborhoods and into rural communities “where parents and children can enrich their Americanness over the generations.” Life becomes increasingly unbearable for Ameri…