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Will Huntsman’s Mormon Mojo Work on the National Stage?

By Joanna Brooks

…hropist whose many named gifts to the people of Utah have included a world-class cancer research institute. In Utah, Jon Huntsman, Jr., benefitted tremendously from the family name. And as governor, he implemented a pragmatic, pro-business agenda in a Mormon culture that (despite its reputation as the reddest of the red—thank you, Cleon Skousen and Glenn Beck) tends to be pragmatic and pro-business on just about everything except gay marriage. But…

A King for Jesus: What the Religious Right Sees in Trump

By Roger O. Friedland

…king-makers, saying the gross and the unthinkable. Power Politics Trump’s business enterprises exemplify power’s role. Real estate, the core of his holdings, is a fixed territory whose capitalization depends on the ability to secure the support of the state: on roads, zoning, tax abatements, subsidies. Real estate is about power, and the rents that accrue to that power, as much as it is about markets. “That’s business,” Trump blithely replied whe…

Mumbai is Not 9/11

By Laurie Patton

…cture welcoming sea travelers, where wealthy globetrotters stay and middle-class travelers go for a cup of coffee after seeing the India Gate; the Trident/Oberoi, where global business elites go after a meeting at the stock exchange or legislative assembly; and when the rich and famous want to celebrate, they go to Café Leopold nearby. Other places were not so lofty. Were you in a fender-bender with another rickshaw and needed some stitches, you m…

This is not a Religion Column: Biblical Capitalism

By Jeff Sharlet

…e can’t.” The common denominator is power. The best way to help the middle class, the Fellowship believes, is to help the ruling class. The benefits will trickle down. “They’re so busy loving us,” one Fellowship brother once said of the elites to whom he ministered, “but who’s loving them?” The Fellowship is, and right now they’re loving Sarah Palin, a candidate who has excited the evangelical base like no other since William Jennings Bryan raged…

Religion and Drag Coexist in ‘Drag Race’ Spinoff—but That Doesn’t Mean It’s Queer

By Drew Konow

…r respectable upper middle-class ends. Officiating a gay wedding, owning a business, focusing on his drag career, and reconciling with his biological family also fit squarely within the show’s homonormative, neoliberal message. When Justin goes on a date in search of his “prince charming,” Alyssa Edwards narrates the scene. Once it’s clear there is no chemistry, she informs viewers that “Christian Mingle has been rebooted. I ain’t one of those tha…

Blankets, Booties, and Jesus: Spiritual War on the Uterus in Rick Perry’s Texas

By Sarah Posner

…d not respond to interview requests). Had an Abortion? You’re Not a Second-Class Follower of Jesus I recently met Kent and his wife, Mary Anne, at their church north of downtown, in a corrugated metal warehouse building next door to a Family Dollar store. The Kents’ foray into the anti-abortion wars started three years ago, when he and Mary Anne discovered there was an abortion clinic half a mile from their church. They started praying there, and…

Studying Religion is Suddenly Popular

By Mark Hulsether

…study politics or law and also be activists or lawyers, or study music or business and also play music or start businesses. They simply take this for granted. Why, in the case of religion students, is this treated as a problem or trivialized? Will allies of the academic study of religion be pleased if they follow Newsweek’s link, “Related: The 25 Best Schools for Do-Gooders”? Apparently the winners were not measured by actual curricula in social…

This is Not a Religion Column: The Audacity of Compromise…

By Jeff Sharlet

…mand political loyalty, it asks for earnest acclamation. To conservatism’s business elite and secular liberalism’s political elite, it responds with yet another ruling class: a “responsible” elite. There’s an element of the superhero sensibility in Obama’s Social Gospel politics, a perspective that sees the poor as damsels in distress or children in burning buildings, awaiting rescue by the best and the brightest: Jane Addams, the early 20th centu…

God’s Law is the Only Law: The Genesis of Michele Bachmann

By Sarah Posner

…News’ Huckabee show “doesn’t understand the difference between the state’s business and the church’s business,” because he believes in “welfare taking care of the poor, which is contrary to Jesus’ teaching.” Again, that’s a reflection of the Christian Reconstructionist view of God-granted authority—i.e., it’s not within the government’s “authority” to take care of the poor. I asked Titus whether it would be a big moment for him to see Bachmann, a…

Worse Than the Robber Barons

By Peter Laarman

…hools, etc. They have a sneaking suspicion (also warranted) that these new-class elites take advantage of special tax breaks and other sweet deals even as they continue to make the rules for everyone else and even as they decide what interest rates we drones will have to pay and what level of taxation we will have to bear. Do not expect Main Street’s visceral rage over such presumptions of privilege—and over the special moral exemptions the exces…