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Culture Wars Today, Tomorrow, and Forever?

By Bill Berkowitz

…against Ogden was clearly a dry run for future anti-Obama efforts, particularly those related to the president’s judicial appointments. What are we learning from these early skirmishes about how the religious right intends to operate in the Obama era?: You Snooze, You Lose: In the three-plus weeks since Obama has taken office, the religious right has seized upon every opportunity to criticize his policies and his personnel choices. And when there…

Fox Makes Mockery Of Promise To Rein In Beck’s Anti-Semitism

By Sarah Posner

…f Jews, as Alexander Zaitchik wrote in Common Nonsense: Glenn Beck and The Triumph of Ignorance, Beck’s career is actually built on three of the “eight most common social phenomena that precede and accompany genocide,” dehumanization, classification, and polarization. In his twisted propaganda screed against the right’s sworn enemy, he turned Soros into a sub-human, insidious force — the “them” in Beck’s vision of the “us” of “real America” under…

As Florida Attempts to Make it Illegal, an Argument for the Sacred Work of White Discomfort

By Robert P. Jones

…ce.” The bill then proceeds to define “discrimination” under Florida state law as a violation of “individual freedom.” This provision effectively gives any single white person veto power over the content of history curriculum in schools or trainings in the workplace. White discomfort governs historical truth. As I noted in October, this bill shares a common purpose with the raft of other CRT bills emerging in state legislatures across the country….

Policing Academic Freedom: A Book, a Controversy, and the Ominous Aftermath

By Michael Jerryson

…ties I was a part of, trips to India, and my own reflective readings.” Shukla explains that “while there always have been and now are a growing number of scholars who are committed to presenting emic understandings of Hinduism, we find each year that the ‘in crowd’ created by Doniger at the AAR has yet to shift in terms of power and influence.” In light of this information, she reprimands the AAR for their support of the work and a failure to enco…

Religious Right Targets Obama Picks, Daschle and Holder

By Bill Berkowitz

…e Senate Republicans see the Holder confirmation process, which will take place largely in the Judiciary Committee, as a proxy fight for judicial confirmation battles to come (including for the Supreme Court),” Kathryn Kolbert, President of People for the American Way, said in a recent e-mail. “They want to see how far they can push Obama and the Senate Democrats. There have even been indications that the Republican backlash against Holder could b…

Boy Scout “Perversion Files” Raise Questions about Abuse in Mormon Contexts

By Joanna Brooks

…ts United States congregations. (The New York Times profiled the LDS-BSA relationship—including the experience of gay LDS Boy Scouts impacted by BSA’s LGBT discrimination policies—this week.) Today, a whopping 34% of Boy Scouts troops nationwide are co-sponsored by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. But sources who have scrutinized the BSA’s so-called “perversion files” report that fewer than 2% of the cases documented therein are…

The Radical Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Left’s Challenge Today

By Peter Laarman

…everywhere. He cites examples of U.S.-sponsored counterinsurgency: Venezuela, Guatemala, Peru, South Africa, Mozambique. Once he has placed the United States squarely “on the wrong side of the world revolution,” King delivers the gut punch—the part of the speech everyone remembers if they remember it at all: I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values….

Covering Religion in The New Year: The Atheist Bus And More

By Diane Winston

…bably no God, now stop worrying and enjoy your life” message throughout England, Wales and Scotland. According to the Telegraph: “Ariane Sherine, a writer who first thought of the atheist bus adverts, said: ‘You wait for ages for an atheist bus, then 800 come along at once. I hope they will brighten people’s days and make them smile on their way to work.’” So will it be a year of smiles for the faithless—or, perhaps, the faithful? A lot depends on…

Prosperity Gospel Is Not the Only Problem with Joel Osteen’s Harvey Response

By Brie Loskota and Peter Gudaitis

…ponse. Congregations that do not have a strong social mission or disaster plan often flail in the wake of humanitarian disaster. Nevertheless, many faith communities play critical roles in responding to unmet needs during and after disasters. Faith-based organizations represent the overwhelming majority of members in national and state Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (VOAD), associations that coordinate services across organizations. Fo…

Trump is Helping the Economy… The Apocalypse Economy

By Jonathan Root

…n the border of North and South Carolina, the park was nearly twenty times larger than Disney World’s Magic Kingdom in Orlando. It featured campgrounds, an RV park, a water park, a television studio, an amphitheater, a 500-room hotel, shopping centers, and restaurants. In 1986, the park welcomed six million visitors, making it the most attended non-Disney theme park in America. The bonanza didn’t last. In 1987, news leaked that Bakker had had a on…