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White People Dying Younger Because of…Moral Turpitude? Give Us a Break

By Peter Laarman

…f the AIDS pandemic. Fortunately, at least for those within the chattering classes, life expectancy–and good health expectancy–continue to rise among well-educated white people. Most c-class commentators, including the New York Times editorial board, are taking a sharp breath over this despairing news but are not rushing to conclusions about what must be done. Not so the fearless fusilladiers at First Things: boss editor R.R. Reno plunged right in…

Shucking Off The ’50s. And the ’40s. And the…

By Daniel Schultz

…data like he does. More broadly, I think all of this talk about “creative class states” and “working class states” and this complex and that special interest misses the point. One of the major theses of my book Changing the Script is that we are stuck because there is a distinct lack of imagination on the part of our political leaders. They are unable or unwilling to question the basic premises that exert such control in our lives—consumerism, mi…

Country Music Minus the Culture Wars: A Lesson from a Legend

By Paul Harvey

…They came from the gut-wrenching experiences of the Southern rural working class, people who were poor recruits for the modernist fundamentalism of conservative townspeople, and difficult material to mold into an organized movement. [Note: John Hayes’ dissertation “Hard, Hard Religion: Faith and Class in the New South” (University of Georgia, 2007) plumbs their experience as well as anyone ever has.] Once, after hearing a moving address at an acad…

The Theological Hijacking of Religious “Freedom”

By Timothy K. Snyder

…shape our working lives, but it seems like you’re confusing ministry with business, and business with ministry. When you officiate a wedding you’re not acting as an individual, are you? Don’t you represent the church you serve? Do you have a lot of gay and lesbian couples who know your position on these issues still asking you to marry them? That seems kind of unlikely. And about that cake-maker. You seem to be suggesting that every time a busine…

Scalia’s (Not Very Catholic, Right Wing) Originalism

By Patricia Miller

…hampioning the long-standing “legitimate” rights under the Constitution of business and gun owners. In 2004, Scalia complained that the Court had “now determined that liberties exist under the federal Constitution—the right to abortion, the right to homosexual sodomy—which were so little rooted in the traditions of the American people that they were criminal for 200 years.” The fact that these things were “criminal” because the Constitution was wr…

Does War Make Sense? Science and Religion on the Battlefield

By Nathan Schneider

…arch of History. No longer merely serving the ambitions of an aristocratic class, wars were now “engines” of history, crucial junctures at which nations, peoples, and classes revealed their true nature and purpose, fulfilling their historical destiny. Clearly, the technoscientific side of Hegel’s impression is only part of the story. The Weltgeist was, quite explicitly, a concept through which Hegel sought to synthesize Christian metaphysics with…

Space X and the Photo-Op: Trump’s Use of the Bible Was Just the Latest in a Series of Christian Nationalist Messages

By Tony Keddie

…fits of labor performed by people of color still line the pockets of white businessmen. It’s time to take Douglass’s insights more seriously. Trump’s violent force and his Bible are both in plain sight. Those of us on the Left need to focus more attention on exposing the “infernal business” cloaked by the “garb of Christianity”—on the invisible political and economic structures by which white elites accumulate “blood-stained” profits from the unho…

When White Terrorism Goes Unpunished: Trump’s Acquittal and the Persistence of Anti-Blackness

By Peter Laarman and Charlene Sinclair

…be tolerated? The apparent answer from the apologists is that the Senate’s business is to enable senators to keep their seats by any means necessary. They appear to support the view that the Senate’s main business is to make calculated decisions based on votes and money, even when such decisions further cement an unholy marriage with white nationalists and even when the calculation means taking direction from powerful reactionary forces that want…

“This is What Theology Looks Like”: Disrupting a Crucifying System

By Jorge Juan Rodriguez V

…f soldiers following orders. It was a system that understood his death as “business as usual.” The physical resurrection of Jesus, then, was an embodied declaration that this black life mattered. This prophetic claim was not enacted in an academy or a temple, however; it was embodied in the streets as people witnessed a physical disruption—and those in power ran scared. We march in solidarity, chanting “This is what theology looks like!” because e…

The Pope, Marxists, and the Koch Brothers

By Sarah Posner

…izable donation from the Charles Koch Foundation, because, the head of the business school tells Gibson, the foundation “felt the new business school’s mission to promote a ‘person-centered economy’ dovetailed with its own goals of fostering ‘principle entrepreneurship.’” That’s person-centered, not people-centered. In reaction to the $1 million grant, 50 priests, activists, theologians, and scholars wrote a letter of protest, charging, “We are c…