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Why Conservatives Really Oppose Federal Aid for the ‘Undeserving’

By Daniel Schultz

…ooed base that their white bona fides were all in place, despite their inability to limit the bill’s direct relief to white working-class domestic automobile-driving Red Man chewers. You can’t win ’em all, sometimes you gotta help those big city folks too, you know. As deep as the scar of racism runs in American society, though, there’s something even deeper at work here. Stoehr is right to point out the economic hierarchicalism that pervades this…

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

By Jason C. Bivins

…o the law. What is incumbent on religious protesters today is not just to fill up the jails, but to multiply. The Berrigans created their audience by being paid attention. And this is what religious protesters are doing brilliantly today: in protests, online, in their communities, even in their classrooms. The strategies are many, but the goals can only be achieved if attention increases. If movements form, rather than occasional actions. Renewed…

SoulCycle Looks to Sell its Soul

By Michael Schulson

…and Los Angeles (which, together, account for 95% of SoulCycle’s revenue) will be willing to drop $30+ in order to pedal in unison with strangers, listening to messages of empowerment, growth, and self-actualization. But SoulCycle is also part of a larger gamble: namely, that Americans will be willing to meld the forms of spirituality and the forms of capitalism in more and more blatant ways. In this, SoulCycle has a lot in common with prosperity…

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

By Chrissy Stroop

…rvesting, and from those data harvests, they’re able to develop really detailed profiles of individuals, and then they can microtarget those individuals. They can do so to scale. So it’s not just, I need to find somebody in a community 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…

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

By Michelle Goldberg

…at “the evangelical, right-wing, oogedy-boogedy branch of the GOP is what ails the erstwhile conservative party.” Former Bush speechwriter David Frum made a more conciliatory version of this argument in a recent Newsweek piece titled, “How the GOP Can Rise Again.” “Republicans need to modulate our social and cultural message,” he wrote. “Not jettison. Not reverse. Modulate. For example: we are a pro-life party, but every Republican platform since…

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

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…Daughters featured, once again, parents who really want to protect their children, and children who sometimes bristle under parental protection. The three families—the Colemans, the Perrys, and the Koloffs—have really grown on me since the show started. In last night’s episode, Taylor Coleman’s parents have her renew her sexual purity pledge, which they interpret to involve no kissing before marriage. Olivia Perry’s parents watch her infant daught…

Body Language: Michael Jackson and the Illogic of White Superiority

By Anthony B. Pinn

…ody 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 meaning and importance in the observation made by scholars who argue that the body is a contested terrain. That is to say, it is on and through the body that our…

First Things First: Sexual Equality Just Is

By Kate Blanchard

…oing work women have always done. Women and men can now both have equally “cheap sex” thanks to the Pill, but Regnerus concludes that this has come back to bite the very women who thought they were liberated by creating an equality-induced “power imbalance” in the marriage market: there is a surplus of women who want to marry, creating a buyer’s market for men. Pathetic, lonely women like “Nina” are now left out in the cold where they can expect “…

From ‘Management Gurus’ to ‘Corporate Chaplains’: A Review of Spirituality Inc.

By Brittany Shoot

…ally harmful system to some group of workers down the line is troubling. While Chick-Fil-A takes pride in letting their employees have one day off each week, I question why conditions in factory chicken farms (both for the birds and the workers) are not the expressed concerns of a purportedly spiritual corporation. Even if one can justify low paid but spiritually sound employment as a fast food clerk, it is disconcerting that companies like Hobby…

The Moral Bankruptcy of Silicon Valley Asceticism

By Vlad Chituc

…fford a cabin in the woods; far fewer can afford Rhinehart’s 21st century Silicon Valley upgrade. Maybe we will one day live in a techno-ascetic utopia, where parking lots become parks and power plants become museums because we all use solar cells and drink Soylent and have our clothes shipped to us (efficiently) by drone. But who will exist on the fringes? Rhinehart’s vision would have us invert the “haves” and the “have-nots,” letting the rich l…