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

By Michael Pasquier

…re Caminada, he discovered that his parents and brother had died along with 800 other residents. Those who survived the flood moved “up the bayou” (as they still say in Lafourche Parish) to towns like Leeville and Golden Meadow. Today, what remains of Cheniere Caminada is a historic marker and a decaying cemetery. Beasts of the Southern Wild is not about saving the Bathtubs of Louisiana. It is about remembering them. “In a million years, when kids…

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

By Peter Schwartz

…e, as it were) is Catholic natural law moral philosophy. Natural law is the 800-year-old Thomist tradition that absorbs (from revelation and scripture) and communicates (into public discourse and legal practice) a quite specific understanding of the human individual as the summit of God’s creation. First Things has hosted some of the most important debates and produced some of the most fruitful arguments in support of National Conservatism, the in…

Why I’m Not Watching the State of the Union Address

By Daniel Schultz

…make some rhetorical nod toward truth, justice, Mom and apple pie. But the bulk of the speech, and probably the vast majority of its important content, will be dedicated to figuring out, analyzing, and problem-solving, to “reducing life’s mysteries to manageable, discrete elements” that poll well. That serves the established order, but it’s nothing new. Seen it. Heard it. Bored by it. If I want to see some interesting technique, I can always watch…

The Best Books Media of 2008

By Jeff Sharlet

…poet whose memoirs, translated by a character much like Peter, make up the bulk of the novel—“is one of literature’s most stunning achievements,” declared Junot Díaz in his remarks for the John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize, for which Peter was a finalist. Peter and I have been talking about the great American Yiddish novel (in English, of course) we both believed was was hidden somewhere amidst the thousands of Yiddish volumes at the National Yid…

First Draft Of History Today Could Be Fox News Promo Tomorrow

By Lauri Lebo

…o land the lucrative textbook market of Texas. Texas is the second largest bulk purchaser in the country, second only to the bankrupt California education system. And many other states follow Texas’ lead and buy the same version. So that means students across the country could be forced to read McLeroy’s myopic vision of America’s past. The organization, which champions faith and defends religious freedom, sent a letter to top publishing companies…

UK Atheist Church Invasion

By Becky Garrison

…at not tens or hundreds but thousands of congregations can be started. The bulk of this money is to build the digital platform, and this amount is what it costs to build and maintain comparable international platforms for a two year period. Once we raise this money, we can build this digital platform that will make it easy for people to meet up with people in their area, start their own community, and grow their community virally. Evans: This has…

Democratic Hopeful Pete Buttigieg Makes Faith 101 Misstep

By Daniel Schultz

…ntentionally or not, and it’s refreshing to hear this reminder. Now to the bulk of it. Buttigieg blows the question put to him—What do you mean when you call for the emergence of a religious left?—mostly by omission, rather than commission. It’s still pretty bad. For example: I don’t know how or why someone running for national office doesn’t understand (or at the very least can’t be bothered to explain) that there already is a religious left in t…

Watch John Oliver Satirize IRS’ Lack of Church Oversight

By Becky Garrison

…scheme was exposed on Oliver’s show. While the televangelists receive the bulk of the media coverage, an examination of the finances of the now defunct Mars Hill Church reveals the prevalence of abuse in any church environment lacking adequate accountability structures. Even though the church formally dissolved in January 2015, the distribution of their assets remains buried beneath a myriad of LLCs. (For more on that, go to wenatcheethehatchet.b…

Bishop, Priest, Protester Arrested in Trinity Wall Street/Occupy Clash

By Elizabeth Drescher

…Wall Street has to deal with. Like it or not…Trinity Wall Street owns the bulk of Lower Manhattan, they have the largest portfolio of any congregation in the global Anglican Communion, and they reap the benefits of the 1%…We have to do something now that brings a conscience to capitalism… Protestors and supporters may have been wondering What Would Jesus Do? yesterday, but at this point the big question seems to be this: Will the Episcopal Church…

Time to Face Facts: White Evangelicalism Has Always Been Right Wing

By Neil J. Young

…n to the overwhelming prevalence of evangelical conservatism. Instead, the bulk of white evangelicals’ political efforts have always veered to the right, often to the extreme. From Civil Rights to Vietnam to abortion to gay rights, from national defense to tax policy to climate change to health care and on and on, white evangelicals have solidly and consistently championed the most conservative positions. Where some white evangelicals have at time…