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In The Daily Beast, Niall Ferguson Says: Bomb Iran

By Haroon Moghul

…ss Iran, through a patchily-governed Iraq, and across an unstable, violent Syria—as is already happening in the aftermath of the redistributive consequences of the Libyan war. They could arm Syrian Sunnis against the Alawi government, or just aim for Israel. I’m sure many such groups would love to try. And how would it possibly be in Israel’s interest to realize that geopolitical scenario? How could it be in America or Europe’s interest to realize…

Pittsburgh Paradox: A City Haunted by God and Steel

By Ed Simon

…ever, and central to my argument is that Pittsburgh’s archetypal history—a frontier town founded by settler-colonials in a province with utopian aspirations that grows into the wealthiest industrial metropolis in America, only to see its economy gutted by free-market orthodoxy—makes the region a metaphor for the nation itself. Which is what makes the spiritual implications of Pittsburgh’s meaning all the more important, because if we try and recon…

No God but Country: The Religion of John McCain Has Something Important to Tell Us

By Kathryn Lofton

…ent, and maybe it matters to you. McCain has noted several times that the “number one issue… that people should [use to] make a selection of the president of the United States [is] will this person carry on in the Judeo-Christian principle that has made this nation the greatest experiment in the history of mankind?” A person’s faith is, according to McCain, an “important part of our qualifications to lead.” Bracketing his dubious grasp of constitu…

America, the Mythical: “Mother of Exiles” or Denier of Safe Haven?

By Ed Simon

…re some of the most unlikely candidates to forge a new civilization in the frontier wilderness. Yet their propensity to interpretive obsession led them to be their own first chroniclers, none more so than Bradford in his Of Plymouth Plantation. Initially the symbolic import of their American locale was less important than the fact that they had garnered a degree of independence from the official English church, but over the course of the seventeen…

Is Religion the Only Tool Left for Legal Discrimination?

By Sunnivie Brydum

…people. All of which prompts the question: Is “religious freedom” the last frontier of legally permissible discrimination? Those opposed to LGBT equality are keenly aware that federal law does not protect LGBT people from discrimination in the workplace, housing, education, or public accommodations. As such, right-wing legal groups like the Alliance Defending Freedom, Liberty Counsel, Becket, and the Family Research Council have brought numerous c…

False Saviors: Trump, Cruz, and the Gospel of the Quick Fix

By Marcia Pally

…sons not in the labor force is growing. While some are getting richer, the numbers tell us, middle income earners are hobbled by shrinking purchasing power, disappearing job opportunities, and increasingly out-of-reach education. This is problem enough for the many who work hard and can’t figure out why they’re “losing ground,” as Pew wrote. Add to that fears of terrorism. People want relief. But if no solution presents itself, either lassitude or…

Big MoPublican Primary 2012: Dignity Watch

By Joanna Brooks

…low protestors, Huntsman melted into the crowd. Both Huntsman and Romney remind me of the premium Mormon culture has placed on clean-cut all-American likeability. Since the middle of the twentieth-century, that’s been the ticket we’ve tried to ride away from our frontier origins and melt into the suburban middle class. And still, Mormons consistently find our faith ranking consistently low in public esteem. Perhaps there is a lesson in all of this…

Mr. President, Your Papers Please: The Birther Inquisition

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…owering citizens near the Mexican border to arm themselves and protect the frontier of their homeland from foreign workers who are invading. All of this passionate anxiety about identity has been brewing just beneath the surface of a debate that is only allegedly about the President’s birth certificate. When the President noted yesterday that he had listened to this debate with curiosity and bemusement, I believe him. The New York Times Sunday Mag…

State of the Union Stuck in that Olde-Time Semi-Niebuhrianism

By Ira Chernus

…heir graves in disbelief. But, hey, this is the New World where the frontier has traditionally offered the eternal lure of new beginnings and limitless wealth, even for the poorest-born. At the core of the American belief in social harmony is the myth of a classless society. Other nations are still caught in the snares of age-old class conflict while we have only the one great class: the middle. That economic fiction has always gone hand-in…

RDBook: Power Belongs to God

By Nathan Schneider

…sts like Jonathan Edwards and Charles Finney. They preached a Jesus of the frontier: muscular, self-reliant, and terse with words. Then comes a sequence of prosperity preachers and cowboy evangelists who have never ceased to capture American hearts. The master narrative arrives all the way at the door of New Life Church in Colorado Springs, the megachurch that Sharlet infiltrated for a gripping 2005 feature in Harper’s . Throughout, he suggests, t…