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The Right Questions Kamala Harris’ Blackness — Yet as Long as She Holds Any Power She’ll Always Be Too Black for Them

By Mary Rambaran-Olm

…my ballot for someone who’s birthed their own children, just like all the previous presid— wait, what? Anyway, Kamala cackles like Satan or something. You see, it doesn’t matter what her policies look like because Kamala embodies something that makes her a target in ways that other candidates are privileged to avoid. She’s a Black woman. Even as a mixed-race Black woman, she has no White side to lean into because the complexity of her mixedness s…

Partisanship Is The New Civil Religion

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…elsewhere. Now Larry Summers has taken to the round of Sunday talk shows, presenting the President’s (or is it the Democrats’?) case. The sound bytes are simpler. Something must be done, and right away. The economy lost 600,0000 jobs in the last month alone, “as many jobs as exist in the entire state of Maine.” More to the point, the party that stood watch over the last eight years and gave us this imploding economy is in no position to lecture u…

Why Faith Needs Redemptive Struggle to Be Meaningful

By Liz Theoharis

…estions why progressives gave up using the word “welfare” when it’s in the preamble to the U.S. Constitution and why even President Obama won’t use the word “poor” when it’s one of the most prominent words and themes in the Bible. I am always reminded of the Book of James when I observe the theory and theology of Rev. Barber: The biblical writer and Rev. Barber both insist that a vital Christian faith propels us into the struggle for basic justice…

What To Do When Fred Phelps Arrives in Your Neighborhood

By Susan Henking

…fact that our work lives are truly oppressive. Or, fantasy picketing could prime the pump of protest and change. Certainly the strategy of using umbrellas to hide the distasteful words of Fred Phelps (forcing him into his own tiny little closet) or the angels in Laramie, Wyoming that stood between those “God Hates Fags” signs and the funeral of Matthew Shepard are forms of fantasy picketing though a tad more literal than what I had in mind. This…

The Intellectual Source Code For National Conservatism Can Be Found at This Niche Catholic Publication

By Peter Schwartz

…st be the first priority—in economic activity or in religious and cultural practices—is largely a legacy of Reformation Protestantism, with its inherent and recursive tendencies toward fragmentation and motion. Catholicism instinctively recoils from this entropic chaos because it obviates the commitment to first principles and to a divinely ordained order on which a theology and philosophy of morality and virtue depends. But the Catholic Church al…

On the Taliban’s Hit List: An Exiled Pakistani Singer’s Plea to Save Music

By Austin Dacey

…usic and culture are diminishing, it’s high time to work seriously for its preservation and promotion. We can consider the following steps in this regard. *Create awareness regarding the plight of Pashtun artists in international media. *Organize cultural exchange programs, wherein Pashtun artists could get opportunities to present their music and rich heritage of folklore to the world. *Pressure the government of Pakistan through international hu…

Something So Broken: What’s Frightening About Beasts of the Southern Wild

By Michael Pasquier

…it is neither ineffable nor invisible itself” because the filmmaker “uses precise temporal means—camera angles, dialogue, editing—for predetermined transcendental ends.” And Beasts is a transcendental film. As I sat in New Orleans’ Prytania Theater for a weekday matinee surrounded by dozens of retirees and a handful of college students, I was in the Bathtub; I observed the world through a child’s eyes; I witnessed a hurricane and a flood; I met a…

What Coverage of a Fatal Orthodox Baptism Reveals About Western Media

By Katherine Kelaidis

…e case last week. So what happened? Well, the Romanian, Greek, and Russian press all make note of the fact that the priest baptized the infant face up while holding his hand over the infant’s face and mouth (something observable in the video of the baptism). This is not the position in which infants are ordinarily baptised. And it’s a dangerous difference. Because babies when they are just dunked in water hold their breath. But a baby being placed…

Double Helix: Who’s Your Daddy?

By Arri Eisen

…t elsewhere in this column reveals that experience (which my dad obviously provided me a lot of) directly affects who we are and how our DNA is expressed, regardless of that DNA’s origin. What does concern me is the type and power of DNA knowledge, and how gaining access to it at home, alone, could be a problem. As my student discussing his “real” self and Dorothy Nelkin and Susan Lindee in The DNA Mystique effectively demonstrate, in our culture…

Are Atheists Taking 1st Amendment Suits Too Far?

By Gordon Haber

…mates range from $700 to $800 million per year. But this is less about the principal than the principle. The FFRF believes that clergy aren’t paying their “fair share,” making life more expensive for the rest of us. Never mind that it works out to less than $2.50 per citizen. The FFRF has a good chance of winning. Although I’m no constitutional scholar, the parsonage exemption does seem to privilege one set of citizens over another. I find it hard…