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Four Reasons Why Egypt’s Revolution Is Islamic

By Zaid Hassan

…what it means to be “political.” For many Muslims, Islam does not mean conflict; it means submission, to truth and to peace. The unleashing of towering new political energies in the Muslim world present an opportunity for Muslims to hold fast to their highest ideals and for non-Muslims to support those ideals while transcending easy stereotypes and cheap fear-mongering. We should therefore pause in our reactions and ask ourselves; perhaps an Isla…

A Shining City: The Occupy Movement and the American Soul

By Elizabeth Drescher

…der dresses and ridiculously high-heeled shoes. They sipped from splits of cheap sparkling wine while their tuxedoed companions swilled the local brew, Budweiser—that, too, a faded American icon, sold off in 2008 to the Belgium-based multinational, InBev. No, of course, these were not the protesters who have begun to appear in more and more American cities, but keepers of the once-stable base of a certain version of the fabled American Dream: wedd…

Why Conservatives Really Oppose Federal Aid for the ‘Undeserving’

By Daniel Schultz

…ollars in relief aid. It’s OK to give corporations access to unlimited and cheap money from the Federal Reserve. But it’s not OK to give normal people an extra $600 a week, people who are at the same time being coaxed by billionaires into going back to work even at the risk of death. It goes almost without saying that there’s more than a little connection between conservative economic ideology and conservative racial ideology. Part of the performa…

Must We Burn Something to Get Attention?: 50 Years After the Catonsville Nine

By Jason C. Bivins

…olic in its goals and orientations. But while those protests multiplied in number, and continue still, they were drowned out by the hosannas of Ronald Reagan’s America™. If burning children are the price paid for our stock portfolios or geopolitical advantage, well, just keep smiling, America. The whole world is now the land of burning children. So, too, has America’s never-ending war (who are we fighting now, again?) marched on. There is fire in…

SoulCycle Looks to Sell its Soul

By Michael Schulson

…mic and the spiritual, and the legalistic and the New Age, with a seamless fluency. On a page of the S-1 form that discusses “the lifelong quest for meaning, wellness, and personal growth,” we also learn that this lifelong quest has had a happy outcome, namely an “increased Adjusted EBITDA from $11.2 million in 2012 to $35.7 million in 2014, representing a CAGR of 78% and an Adjusted EBITDA Margin of 32% in 2014.” Is SoulCycle in “the business of…

‘People You May Know’ Reveals a War on Democracy Being Waged With Big Data

By Chrissy Stroop

…ty who’s vulnerable, and I’m going to target them specifically, and try to flip them and then they’ll be able to influence their friends and so on. It’s all of that, but I’m going to do a million of them. The power of that is incredible. And then when you dig into what we focus on in the film, that Cambridge Analytica and Gloo were using church networks to identify people who were mentally ill and target them, it’s a really evil system. CS: So let…

The Birth of Un-Cool: How Disgusted Liberals Became Neoconservatives

By Michelle Goldberg

…e staid mores of their class by celebrating NASCAR, megachurches, guns and cheap American beer. They congratulated themselves for being more in touch with everyday people than their snobby peers. And then something changed, and suddenly they realized they had little in common with people like Joe the Plumber and the acolytes of Mike Huckabee and Sarah Palin. Social conservatives, especially the religious right, have become a bit of an embarrassmen…

Watching Preachers’ Daughters Right After the Boston Bombings While Teaching a Class on Augustine’s Confessions

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…ou toss the children of Eve into a vast, terrifying sea, which even those afloat on the saving wood can scarcely cross?… O hellish river, human children clutching their fees are still pitched into you… Human cruelty is like a deadly flood that people pay admission to chuck their own children into. Why children? Because they are the ones still being taught how to be “one of us.” Infancy seems to have something of a theological cipher for Augustine….

Body Language: Michael Jackson and the Illogic of White Superiority

By Anthony B. Pinn

…ish’ of sameness—the desire on the part of some African Americans to see reflected in themselves and through themselves the ‘ideal’ depicted in US popular culture. Morrison referenced blue eyes, and Michael Jackson’s body came to mirror this desire to be different, to change the flesh to fit the dominant ideal. There is certainly something to the manner in which white supremacy shapes and represents through numerous outlets—television, magazines,…

First Things First: Sexual Equality Just Is

By Kate Blanchard

…n and men are created alike, in the image of God. And the first man soon declares his love for the first woman precisely because she, unlike the other creatures, is like him: “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh.” If some men have yet to come to terms with the fact that women are—and always have been—fully human, it is no wonder their partners are looking elsewhere for satisfaction….