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The Year in Religion: A Ray of Hope Amid the Usual Fecklessness

By Peter Laarman

…ved wrinkles in American political culture, the ethical foundations of the Republic remain sound. Patriarchal white supremacy is plainly not a malignancy that will be cured by hashtags, by rhetorical resistance, or by symbolic protests that basically amount to saying “Not My President.” Yet a great many of our progressive religious leaders have offered a much-too-thin rhetorical response during the year now ending — a response much too fixated on…

RDPulpit: The Prophets of Neoliberalism

By Peter Laarman

…rve God and wealth” (Mt. 5:24). Even before the foundation of the American republic, however, getting and spending enjoyed pride of place among the preoccupations of the European émigrés to these shores. Tocqueville and every other visitor from abroad noticed it immediately: These Americans live to work, consume, and accumulate. The possession of great wealth has nearly always been idolized here, not deplored as anti-social. Bill McKibben has obse…

The Hollowness of the Southern Baptists’ New Racism and Sexual Abuse Amendments

By Miguel A. De La Torre

…and sexist largely in their favor and were designed at the founding of the Republic to afford them with unearned power. Absent from their declaration is any commitment to participate in the tedious task of using their white cisgendered privilege to dismantle these same social structures. Racial discrimination is more than a bias disposition; it’s more than simply calling me a “spic.” Racial discrimination also includes the political pronouncements…

From Fox News to the Far(ther) Right — Calls for Violence and Retribution Follow Trump Verdict

By Annika Brockschmidt

…d that having a convicted felon as a nominee would finally be the red line Republicans wouldn’t cross, it must have been a rude awakening. The vast majority of Republican officials threw their considerable weight behind the convicted felon who is awaiting three other criminal trials in the future. They spun tales of an allegedly biased prosecutor; an unfair jury, despite Trump’s attorneys being involved in jury selection; and a left-wing jury, tho…

All the Belly-‘eich’-ing

By Sarah Posner

…he right have hysterically compared these calls to McCarthyism. At The New Republic, Brian Beutler observes how conservatives angered by Eich’s resignation have failed to adjust to a “transfer of privilege,” specifically that their anti-gay views are now (to them, abruptly) out of favor (in Silicon Valley at least, if not at A&E.) And, Beutler goes on, these conservative complainers have failed to notice their own double standard. “Yesterday,” Beu…

Is Religious Freedom a Casualty at Ground Zero?

By Kambiz GhaneaBassiri

…e claims made against it were that it did not recognize secular authority, promoted intolerance and violence, and demanded blind obedience to its ancient doctrines. These are all charges currently made against Islam as a religion. In the late 19th century, the prominent nativist Josiah Strong wrote, “It has been shown that it is the avowed purpose of Romanists to ‘make America Catholic.’ It has been shown that this could not be done without bringi…

Blagojevich Is Right

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…Senate is not in session, a significant question in the early years of the Republic when the Senate only met for about half the year. The relevant constitutional clause reads as follows: The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their next Session. Not surprisingly, most of the interpretive quarreling has concerned two of the cap…

Stop Debunking Climate Change Deniers

By Michael Schulson

…ul, it helps to read Judith Shulevitz’s recent, excellent piece at the New Republic, “This Is How You Should Talk to a Climate-Change Denier.” Shulevitz, drawing on the work of psychologist Daniel Kahneman, makes the seemingly obvious point that human decision making and risk assessment aren’t especially rational. Simply put: scientific facts do not, as a rule, sway science denialists. That’s the whole problem, right? Shulevitz goes on to point ou…

Faith-Based Initiatives in the Obama Administration?

By Bill Berkowitz

…ggie Gallagher—who also worked with the National Fatherhood Initiative—“to promote marriage”; and “gave money to writer Mike McManus to support marriage promotion, while also giving money to McManus’ organization, Marriage Savers (‘a ministry that equips … local congregations to prepare for lifelong marriages …’).” Horn was, coincidentally, a founding board member of Marriage Savers. In addition to the NFI grants, in 2006 the organization received…

Israel Under Bush: The Islamophobia Years

By Joel Schalit

…mself half-Christian by birth. But it is just this kind of complexity that Republican promoters of anti-Arab bias seek to simplify. As shocked as many Americans were to learn of Khalidi’s scapegoating, the Republicans’ choice could not have been more perfect. Not because the professor heads up a research center at Columbia that has been the target of criticism by conservative education activists, anxious about how Middle Eastern studies is taught…