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Why We Won’t Let Jonestown (Or 9/11 or Sandy Hook) Die

By Kelsey Osgood

…he and enabling an already-voyeuristic culture. Reporters still on site in Newtown were viewed as parasitic. Just go home already and leave these people to their grieving. But a more generous view is that we needed to return to these petty details in order process the trauma and to grieve for the victims—and for ourselves. Though it sounds soppy in a secular age, we all lost those children, and we all in turn needed to confront this trauma in the…

School of (Patriotic) Rock

By Mark Hulsether

…as hardwired to the right and I associate fireworks with dropping bombs on Vietnam. But we did debate whether there is any such thing as a patriotic song that does not feel like a gesture of support for Republican policies, and our debate planted a seed. Going against my usual habit—which is to play songs like Bob Dylan’s “Masters of War” and the Clash’s “Know Your Rights”—I wondered if I could write a patriotic song that I could sing without bitt…

Coffeehouse Churches and the ‘Party-on Messiah’: How I Lost One Leper Messiah, and Gained Another, Part 3

By Mark Dery

…Vista First Baptist Church was a flashpoint in the so-called Charismatic Renewal, an outbreak of neo-Pentecostalism that erupted, incongruously, in American Catholicism in 1967 and spread like holy fire through the mainline Protestant denominations. The FBC’s charismatic orientation encouraged public displays of beatified passion and, more generally, a middle-class, white (read: toned-down) version of the exuberant call-and-response dynamic that h…

Burying the Future: Youth Violence in Chicago

By Ibrahim Abusharif

…ch in Doha, Qatar, throughout most of the year, and I keep up with Chicago news and baseball scores as a matter of routine. I often come across a news item about a felled Chicago public school student, sometimes with an embedded journalistic running count of how many have been lost so far. Being far away from the city and the country itself alters my reception of the news. Disrobed of important cultural breastplates, I have a hard time receiving t…

Are We Seeing the End of the ‘Good Arabs’ in Israel?

By Shaul Magid

…ian Arab identity that was so central for many of them to create something new – the Israeli Arab…Through its loyalists, the state sought to indoctrinate Arab schoolchildren with the Zionist narrative…to promote obedience to the authorities, and to challenge non-Israeli national identities.” Cohen shows that while there were some real successes in that area, the project mostly failed, and the half century occupation of individuals, many of whom ar…

Errol Morris’ Tabloid Sensationalizes Mormonism and ‘Cult’ Deprogramming

By David Mihalyfy

…a 1977 scandal involving North Carolina beauty queen Joyce McKinney in his new documentary Tabloid—an episode deeply intertwined with, among other things, Mormonism and cult deprogramming. Morris’ corpus has consistently focused on self-deception and the difficulties in reconstructing past events, and Tabloid is no exception. The McKinney scandal is simple: in love with a young Mormon named Kirk Anderson, the beauty queen flies to his mission site…

Review: Is the Religious Right Dying?

By Laura R. Olson

…hurchgoing nation.) The 2006 midterm Elections featured several successful new Democratic candidates, including Ted Strickland (who won the Ohio gubernatorial race) and Sherrod Brown (who won a US Senate seat from Ohio) who made no bones about their personal religiosity. Both candidates retained the services of a new political consulting firm, Common Good Strategies, which was founded in 2005 with the express aim of “helping Democrats reclaim the…

Martin Luther King: Libertarian and Anti-Abortion Social Conservative

By Paul Harvey

…am and fulfilling it.” A message conveniently timed for the opening of the new season of American Idol. But if the local libertarian right threw up its hands this year, the anti-abortion right continues to draft King into their cause. The Rocky Mountains March 4 Life celebrated King Day by marching to the former home of Planned Parenthood on the west side of Colorado Springs (the facility has since moved, but both the old and new locations are in…

The Zeitgeist Debate

By Sarah Posner

…section on the Fed, amid a jumble of claims that veer from World War II to Vietnam to the Patriot Act to an indictment of Fox News, including superimposing Howard Beale’s rant from Network over an image of Rupert Murdoch, the film also links the Bush family to support of Hitler — a claim also made and documented by non-rightwingers. Fixated on “one world” conspiracy theories, the film glorifies Lou Dobbs for reporting on the North American Union…

Dispatches from the Borderlands: Missing Voices

By Daniel Ramirez

…glutted the worldwide coffee market with ambitious development schemes (in Vietnam), we wonder why thousands of farmers from southern Mexico and Central America, forced by the handful of global coffee traders to sell at a loss, have abandoned their milpas and headed north in order to survive. While raking in seven billion dollars a year in migrant-supplied subsidies for our retirement, we decry the economic burden represented by these sojourners a…