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Four Reasons Why Egypt’s Revolution Is Islamic

By Zaid Hassan

…ieties we live in constrain us in the same way as gravity, there is still room for us to look beyond the horizon. A Muslim’s faith is the shuttle he mounts to escape the confines of narrow realism.” As events unfold like a collapsing dam in North Africa and the Middle East, the questions flow. What is the nature of the revolution in Egypt? By extension, what do changes taking place in the Muslim world mean? What do they mean for the US? What does…

A Shining City: The Occupy Movement and the American Soul

By Elizabeth Drescher

On a beautiful early autumn afternoon, loosely organized groups of mostly young adults gathered in the shadow of the St. Louis Gateway Arch, symbol of a bygone vision of American progress, economic hope, and nascent global expansionism. Women wore shiny off-the-shoulder 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 Am…

Why Conservatives Really Oppose Federal Aid for the ‘Undeserving’

By Daniel Schultz

…actually sacred — a type of knowledge Trump has never displayed. To him, choosing Easter must have been like selecting Independence Day or Arbor Day or Groundhog Day — a useful date on which to hang a ploy. Likewise, Paul Waldman is baffled by Lindsey Graham’s attacks on nurses: “You know, the ones who right now are risking their lives to treat coronavirus patients, and are in some cases forced to wear trash bags because their hospitals have run o…

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

By Jason C. Bivins

…, using a recipe for homemade napalm that they’d found in the Anarchist’s Cookbook. This was no generic moral protest, but a specifically Catholic denunciation of the Vietnam War. Certainly, in this, they drew on the church’s social encyclicals (especially Pacem in Terris, which articulated the Church’s default pacifism) and on the protest lineage of Dorothy Day and the Catholic Workers. As the cameras rolled on the protest, Daniel prayed, too, to…

SoulCycle Looks to Sell its Soul

By Michael Schulson

…ost barrier to entry. SoulCycle isn’t a church. But it certainly wants to look like a happy universalistic spiritualized family—albeit one with a healthy profit margin. Accordingly, it’s not cheap. A package of 50 classes in the Hamptons (which includes early class signups) runs for $4,000. New York magazine interviewed one New York City rider who, by the magazine’s estimate, was spending more than $21,000 on SoulCycle each year. A single class, s…

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

By Chrissy Stroop

…t) select committee as it investigated the roles Cambridge Analytica, Facebook, and Russia played in influencing the Brexit referendum. Disappointed with Britain’s lack of political will to pursue needed regulation of tech companies, Kriel and film director Katharina Gellein Viken, determined to bring what they’d learned about big data manipulation, microtargeting, and tech companies’ undermining of civil society to the broader public. The result…

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

By Michelle Goldberg

…d to destroy them and all they valued. But Wolfe captured something else, too—the moment when fashion shifted, and the lefty mascots once glorified for their salt-of-the-earth authenticity suddenly appeared gauche and irrational and actually pretty threatening. He captured, in other words, the birth of the neoconservative spirit. Something similar seems to be happening today among urbane, bourgeois, conservative intellectuals. For years, they’ve l…

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

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…trivia at dinner. He’s making his own friends, liking some subjects in school and not liking others, and beginning to think about what he’d like to be when he grows up. (A naval engineer who makes clocks in his spare time, since you asked.) Obviously it wasn’t just parents of eight-year-olds who felt sick last week when they learned that one of the Boston marathon victims was a child. I don’t mean to suggest that parents have any kind of spe…

Body Language: Michael Jackson and the Illogic of White Superiority

By Anthony B. Pinn

…on of the ways in which the body is an instrument of communication, and a tool for making meaning that speaks beyond the limitations of words. The body, his body on stage, called attention to our bodies—their limitations, their capabilities… their look. As no one failed to notice, the growth of Michael Jackson as an entertainer, as a prime depiction of US cultural expression, was shadowed by radical changes to his appearance. There is so much mean…

First Things First: Sexual Equality Just Is

By Kate Blanchard

…have a beautiful wife to put on ostentatious display (preferably with a brood of beautiful babies), sexual pleasure was until recently viewed by most Christian thinkers as a distraction from the more important life of the spirit. Saints no less than Augustine and Aquinas were clear that sex existed for procreation, with companionship (begrudgingly) as a secondary purpose. Following Jesus’ own path of virginity, however, was seen as the best life…