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Eat, Pray, Trash: What the Critics Don’t See

By Ben Brazil

…cle of what it called “priv-lit” (literature of privilege) and suggested a new title: “Wealthy, Whiny, White.” At Salon.com, Sandip Roy wrote of his “instinctive reflex reaction to books about white people discovering themselves in brown places. I want to gag, shoot, and leave.” It’s still worth asking: why the mass adoration, and why the vitriol? More importantly, why both together? The Transformative Power of Travel In part, it has to do with th…

Blood and Politics — Christian White Nationalism in the Age of Obama

By Bill Berkowitz

…al order prior to the Civil War, when the national-state was a Whites-only republic. Others look forward to the creation of a new White nation-state carved out of the lands of North America. While these ideas were present in the movement from its re-inception in the mid-1970s, they only became dominant in the 1990s, after the end of the Cold War ushered in a new era. Across the globe, nationalism became a language of opposition to the New Global O…

Douthat, Do Tell! Some Questions for a Columnist Longing for the Good Old Days of American Religion

By Peter Laarman

…d of the Virtuous Republic has been invoked, the American system is what renews and guarantees the virtue, but that system is now malfunctioning on account of a God deficit. Or perhaps because of a Flag deficit. It’s hard to tell which, because in minds made like Douthat’s the two always run together. And now comes the hard slap at liberals whose faith is watery at best and whose weakness allows the overly woke to lead them astray: the liberal Chr…

How Would Religion Respond to Extraterrestrials? A Thought Experiment

By Ed Simon

…could be seen to have a metaphysics and cosmology more congruent with the new world than the Abrahamic faiths. But perhaps the best thought experiments about religion-after-first-contact come from literature. Science-fiction authors have long been interested in the implications for both belief and the believer in a universe that is less empty than it first seems. Mary Doria Russell’s 1996 novel The Sparrow recounts the horrific journey of Fr. Emi…

How Trump’s Assertion of “Power to Pardon” Tramples the American Sacred

By Spencer Dew

…e tyrannical monarchy with a country where each citizen was sovereign. The new nation was not only a democracy wherein the citizens engaged in and exercised sovereignty as a collective, but also a republic under a sovereignty of law. This meant—and means, as the current administration must be reminded—separation of powers. In America, “sovereignty” was understood as multiple, layered, a matter of negotiation. Look at the star-shaped constellation…

How “Gratitude” Underwrites Inequality, Power and Exclusion

By Eric C. Miller

…s not that. But when I began this project, I took the time to the read the New Testament in full, in a few different translations, with attention to the original Greek text as well. One of the things that I found to be really beautiful and dangerous—and here I mean dangerous to the status quo—is the radical rhetoric of equality and debt forgiveness that Christ espouses. I was shocked, then, to see how his words were reinterpreted later, especially…

Dear Hollywood, It’s Time to Start Making Films about Real Black Catholic Nuns

By Shannen Dee Williams

…igious life, then I am the Queen of England, the President of the People’s Republic of China, and the lost ruler of Zamunda rolled all into one. While angry reactions to remade classic films are understandable, the notion that Sister Act ever should be taken as anything more serious than Hollywood entertainment is downright ludicrous. It also cannot go unchallenged, not only for the sake of sanity, but also out of respect to the long and fiercely-…

W. E. B. Du Bois, American Prophet

By Edward J. Blum

…uch more dissatisfied with the title of my first book, Reforging the White Republic: Race, Religion, and American Nationalism, 1865-1898. I had wanted to name it When God Wept: Race, Religion, and the Reforging of the White Republic, 1865-1898. The theme of a God who cried over racial discrimination, violence, and injustice ran throughout the book, and Du Bois concluded his magisterial Black Reconstruction with the vision of God weeping over the e…

How “Gratitude” Underwrites Inequality, Power, and Exclusion

By Eric C. Miller

…s not that. But when I began this project, I took the time to the read the New Testament in full, in a few different translations, with attention to the original Greek text as well. One of the things that I found to be really beautiful and dangerous—and here I mean dangerous to the status quo—is the radical rhetoric of equality and debt forgiveness that Christ espouses. I was shocked, then, to see how his words were reinterpreted later, especially…

How Postwar Germany’s Witchcraft Trials Can Help Us Understand QAnon And Other Conspiracy Theories

By Monica Black

…n local settings, many people in the 1940s and 50s remembered how the Nazi new order had settled in when the dictatorship took hold in 1933—the way property, power, and position had been seized by the new masters and handed out among friends and allies. After 1945, the task often fell to denazification committees, formed of citizens with clean political records, to interview fellow community members and examine their documents and hand down verdic…