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Why Conservatives Really Oppose Federal Aid for the ‘Undeserving’

By Daniel Schultz

…re is a singular and profound question that tugs at the sleeve of even the most sober analyst pondering the federal response to coronavirus. To wit, what the hell is it with these people? Although he’s since backed off the proposal Michael Gerson couldn’t figure out why Trump would decide to re-open the nation on Easter: To be sacrilegious requires some recognition of what is actually sacred — a type of knowledge Trump has never displayed. To him,…

Lindsey Graham’s Lying “Eye-ranians”

By Haroon Moghul

…rs to convince the rest of the world the reality of: Rampant Islamophobia, mostly but not always on the right. Vox’s Max Fisher is another journalist, exploring that it isn’t only on FOX News that Islamophobia is now rather ‘out of control’. I’m glad they’re writing, because getting mainstream recognition is necessary, if not sufficient. For Islamophobia is a pernicious beast, as hard to slay as Smaug. Most often, Islamophobia takes the form of eg…

The Moral Bankruptcy of Silicon Valley Asceticism

By Vlad Chituc

…hings because I want to, not because I have to.” And he reports seeing the most interest from young, educated males who are “busy or passionate about something.” Cooking is labor, he argues, and wasted time. If it doesn’t give you joy, why not get rid of it to make room for what matters to you? Last week, Rhinehart published a post on his personal blog that extended this logic to his consumption of electricity. It echoed Walden’s early chapters on…

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

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…I’ve seen in my own house, that I associate with one of the people I love most in the world. And, yes, God help me, the fact that Martin Richard is white, lives in the U.S., and speaks English makes it seem like “he could be my own child,” in a way that doesn’t hold for children further removed from the contexts I know. I dearly wish that weren’t true. It shouldn’t be true. Those are the things I was thinking about when I should have been writ…

This is Not a Religion Column: Christian Candidate Quiz Bowl

By Jeff Sharlet

…Right,” soon to becalled history. American fundamentalism is first and foremo*]}*st a theology—a story about God, man, good, evil, and what happens when you die. It is only secondarily a politics. Sometimes politicians attempt to locate themselves within the fundamentalist story. When they succeed, like Bush in 2000, their fortunes gleam. When they fail, as Fred Thompson did, they look like old shoe leather. Either way, the story survives. It must; it…

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

By Jason C. Bivins

…ecovered from the brokenness of that moment, of all that went down in that most fractious year, from Tet to MLK to Bobby to “the whole world is watching.” It was also the year of the Poor People’s Campaign, recently restarted by Reverend William Barber and others, and about which Father Berrigan enthused at the time. How should we think about Catonsville, given that we have added to this legacy much new brokenness of our own? I think of the lonely…

How To Control Your Ungodly Urges… On a Budget!

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…. Why, you could snap yourself with a rubber band more-or-less constantly for the next year, for a fraction of what any of those fancypants remedies cost. 9. Tell yourself what, deep down, you most need to hear: “I deserve better than to be a meanspirited bullying harasser!” 10. Avoid tempting situations. If you’re listening to Rush Limbaugh? Stop. …

Hajj Journal: Tawaf: How I Fell in Love…

By Amina Wadud

…du’a (including asking for ANYTHING you want), and then make two rakaats. Most people are so overwhelmed at the sight of it, they simply dissolve into tears. For Muslims, this is the psychological center. The heart of our daily prayers. We see it in our mind’s eye, we reproduce it as a design on our prayer rugs. But the real thing. WOW! The way the city has built up around the Ka’abah, which was originally constructed in a valley between surround…

Seeking Broad Appeal to US Christians, ‘God & Country: The Rise of Christian Nationalism’ Glosses Over Critical Context

By Chrissy Stroop

…tinctions matter greatly, yet God & Country elides them at every turn. The most egregious example of dishonest editing occurs when the film cuts from conservative evangelical David French—no friend to LGBTQ and especially transgender Americans—lamentinghow “partisan” Christians have become. The film then cuts to an interview with Bishop William J. Barber II, who says: There’s no way you can look at Jesus and the gospel and put him on the side of g…

Dylann Roof Was Wrong: The Race War Isn’t Coming, It’s Here

By Willie James Jennings

…me cannot achieve it. Others do not want to attain it, and some live in constant frustration in their failure to secure it. Whiteness depends on possession and the possibilities of increasing possession. Enter Dylann Roof. Many have tried to narrate his assassinations inside a story of psychosis and terrrorism sprinkled with racism, so that we will see his actions as extraordinary evil. But Dylann Roof’s act was not extraordinary evil, it was quit…