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The Radical Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Left’s Challenge Today

By Peter Laarman

…ional Liberation Front (“Viet Cong”)—entities which he does not regard as “paragons of virtue.” Then King proceeds to make the antiwar case with unparalleled clarity, citing the reasons he’s calling for the slaughter in Southeast Asia to end: The war has eviscerated domestic anti-poverty efforts; war is always “the enemy of the poor.” War punishes the poor in a second way by sending the poorest to do the fighting and dying; King is scandalized tha…

Why #FreeBritney is an #Exvangelical Cause

By R.L. Stollar

…Evelyn McDonnell has observes, “Selling Britney as a virgin…made her a non-participant in the sexual pleasure that was clearly a part of her appeal. From the very beginning of her career, she lacked agency.” Furthermore, Refinery29’s Danielle Campoamor points out, “It was when Britney reclaimed her agency that her image began to crack.” Britney’s image cracked as she exerted agency because her childhood and early adult life were predicated on the…

As Florida Attempts to Make it Illegal, an Argument for the Sacred Work of White Discomfort

By Robert P. Jones

…hen I was younger, I had dreams of playing soccer at the highest levels. I participated in the Junior Olympic development program, made the high school all-star team for my state, and played Division III NCAA soccer for my Baptist college. Essential to my development as an athlete were coaches who were willing to address both mental and physical conditioning. At the end of a hard practice, One of my most demanding coaches would say, “It’s time to…

New Report on (White) Christian Nationalism and the J6 Insurrection Shows Just ‘How Dire the Threat is’

By Chrissy Stroop

…r which 1500 people registered, 800 of whom attended. These are very large numbers for events of this nature, and part of the reason for releasing the report at this time is to “keep public attention on Christian nationalism.” While no particular next steps are immediately planned, Tyler expresses hope “that this will be a resource for the [US House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack], and for others who are looking into January 6, to do som…

Behind the Inclusive-Sounding Ads of this $100 Million PR-Blitz-for-Jesus it’s the Same Old Conservative Christian Fantasy

By Chrissy Stroop

…a similar experience. The staff member I chatted with urged me to tell my pastor and my parents my secret, with seemingly little regard for whether it would be safe for me to do so. To his credit, he told me he wasn’t a licensed counselor and that I should see one, but when I said I was afraid that a counselor might lead me astray, he clarified that I should definitely only consider a Christian, “biblical” counselor. At one point he quoted “male…

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

By Peter Schwartz

…s this case, but prosaically, with a focus on the political tactics of the Republican Party heading into the 2018 midterm elections. Since the time of Augustine, Catholicism has developed as a universal, systematic religion, the magisterium as imperium. The political legacy of the Catholic Church, certainly since the Middle Ages, suggests a radical and structural bias toward a powerful state, supported by the Church, that represents the will of Go…

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

…es ended up across the world through migration, immigration, or the Middle Passage. To be Black, either in part or non-mixed, is what helps us connect as a global family and community when many of our archives have been erased and destroyed. Sometimes our histories point to unspeakable violence that resonates in the present through generational trauma. And, like any family, we secretly hate that one cousin—you know, the attention seeker, the loud…

Reading Beinart and Lerner as Gaza Burns

By Ira Chernus

…ent, a one-time hawk who supported the Iraq War as well as the Israeli occupation of Palestine, declared himself a dove on Israel-Palestine, it was widely hailed as a turning point in Jewish American life. In Crisis, Beinart makes his own motives perfectly clear: he has a powerful sense of attachment to the Jewish people and a deep desire to see Jewish life flourish in the future, but an equally powerful commitment to the liberal values of Enlight…

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

By Andrew Aghapour

…ieved election to the White House and the role of polling was to greatly expand the number of Americans who were evangelicals. How is that possible that a poll could do that? George Gallup, Jr. was now in charge of religious polling at the Gallup Organization. George Jr. was a born-again Episcopalian himself, and had started doing more polls about Evangelicals. When Jimmy Carter came along, journalists were asking themselves, “What does it mean to…

The Failure to Focus on — And Yes, to ‘Cancel’ — Right Wing Antisemitism is a Problem

By Elad Nehorai

…er was praised. Just the opposite, in fact. Despite lightly condemning her participation, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy reaffirmed his pledge to give her “better committee assignments” if Republicans retake the majority in the midterms. Only three years earlier, McCarthy had removed former Representative Steve King from his committee assignments due to a comment sympathetic to white supremacists. Whether gauging the interest through Google…