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Huckabee v. Beck: A Redux of 2008 Intra-Conservative Attacks and Counterattacks

By Sarah Posner

…dorse him were “more intoxicated with power than principle;” he called the Club for Growth, which called him a “habitual tax-hiker” the “Club for Greed;” and reportedly said that religious conservatives in his home state “drank a different kind of Jesus juice” than he did. There’s no doubt that Huckabee would face the same intra-conservative challenges if he runs again in 2012. He’d still face the “Republican In Name Only” from his original accuse…

Atheists Battle for High School Clubs

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…principal of Irmo High School, Eddie Walker, eventually resigned over the club, later saying he opposed it because he views “the world from a biblical perspective and my view of that was that it was wrong.” Gays and lesbians are not alone in their battle for high school clubs. Next up: atheists. The Secular Student Alliance, which promotes atheism and humanism with chapters at more than 200 colleges, is sending in reinforcements for teen free-thi…

Capricology: Week 3: Apotheosis, Anyone?

By Salman Hameed

…also managed to access Adama’s daughter Tamara, and takes Tamara along to Club V with her and Lacy. The decision to let Tamara go off on her own in Club V without Lacy and Zoe will definitely have some interesting ramifications, since she does not seem to be aware of her “avatar” status, and still thinks she’s human—even though she can’t feel her heart beating. Sister Clarice, meanwhile, uses the holoband to go into a virtual place to enter what…

Christian Punk Meets American Pop; Evangelicals in the ’Burbs

By Brittany Shoot

…y Brown” for having a child out of wedlock in a speech to the Commonwealth Club). In Houston, Pat Buchanan gave a primetime speech in which he declared a “cultural war” for the “soul of America.” I was appalled by the speech, but I had siblings who thought it was great. So my initial interest in the topic was that “family values” could provoke vastly different reactions—I found it exclusive, but others found it inclusive. A few years later, I went…

RDBook: Huckabee ♥’s Nobody

By Kyle Mantyla

…Washington; he lashes out at the likes of National Review magazine and the Club for Growth, whom he calls “the silk-stocking crowd,” for looking down their noses at the blue collar “values voters” that Huckabee claims to represent. Two chapters are devoted to holding himself up as the representative of those who shop at Wal-Mart and not Neiman Marcus; of those who eat at The Waffle House rather than Ruth’s Chris Steak House; of those who watch Tou…

Swiftboating Obama: The Brown Blob of Black Radicalism

By Jonathan L. Walton

…ut of context. It is not about his “performance” before the National Press Club. Nor is this an “attack on the black church,” as Rev. Wright claimed. When this campaign season is over, Rev. Wright and the Trinity United Church of Christ will be an irrelevant afterthought to the many critics who incessantly called for “clarification and understanding” of black liberation theology. And, most likely, Rev. Wright’s name will be unfortunately reduced t…

Manhattan Declaration Is The New Old Culture War

By Sarah Posner

…ts, why did it need to hit the streets with a splash at the National Press Club? The festivities took place just steps away from where the D.C. City Council was considering gay marriage legislation subject to threats from the Archdiocese of Washington, and where the Senate was poised to break a threatened filibuster of floor debate on its health care bill, which the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops called “the worst bill we’ve seen so far on th…

White Nationalist Mottos, the Fate of Jews in the New Christian State, and ‘Appeal to Heaven’ Humor — Day 2 of NatCon 2024

By Annika Brockschmidt and Ben Lorber

…ch Jews will be respected and what he means by “fully integrated.” Country Club Republican optics—MAGA policies The afternoon saw a thematic shift to foreign policy and the role of state power. First up is Elbridge “Bridge” Colby, a Trump official and remnant of the old guard of Country Club Republicans amidst NatCon’s wild mix of Twitter trolls, brash right-wing populists, fundamentalist preachers and theocrats. Despite the stereotypical DC “Insi…

Where Polls and Surveys Fall Short: A Conversation with Robert Wuthnow on “Inventing American Religion”

By Andrew Aghapour

…s pretty much it. Evangelical leaders themselves didn’t believe the Gallup numbers were right, and [they thought that] the best way to combat those Gallup numbers was to ask Gallup to do another survey. And so in 1978, Christianity Today, a leading periodical for evangelicals, paid Gallup to do a big survey and in addition to just asking the born-again question, they asked questions about belief in the Bible, belief in Jesus, and intent on convert…

Why Bill Maher Gets a “C” in My Introduction to Religion Class…

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…pages I’ll confine myself to Religulous.) This is the kind of thing a fair number of my students, raised in the Protestant-dominated United States (even Catholics and Jews have assimilated this definition), come to university thinking about religion; the two key components of which are “belief” and “God.” Religion is some cryptic interior, individual thing that exists in one’s own head, and is only understood in relation to a God. I don’t blame my…