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Before Breitbart: How Right Wing Media Transformed American Politics

By Eric C. Miller

…y of Pennsylvania Press August 2016 Hanighen and Morley brought on a young Chicagoan named Henry Regnery to handle their promotional work. Regnery soon got the publishing bug, and left Human Events to start his own company, Regnery Publishing. Soon he was putting out some of the most important conservative books of the era, including William F. Buckley’s God and Man at Yale (1951) and Russell Kirk’s The Conservative Mind (1953). It was in this mom…

Kosher Quinoa or Human Rights: Guess Which Dominated Passover Stories

By Shalom Goldman

…t’s food is certified kosher: These days Evanger’s Dog & Cat Food Co. near Chicago sells dog and cat food that, in a manner of speaking, is kosher. They are deemed usable during the Passover holiday, though not kosher for human consumption, and have the endorsement of the venerable Chicago Rabbinical Council. Evanger’s website touts its products by showing a photo of a dog wearing a yarmulke. Not to be undone on the ‘animals eating kosher’ front,…

Money, Technology, and the Silence of Churches: A Conversation with Susan Thistlethwaite

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ul way.” As a Senior Fellow at American Progress, a theology professor at Chicago Theological Seminary and its former president, Thistlethwaite has seen, firsthand, how money and power have not only influenced the political and financial system, but how it has affected those at the bottom of the economic scale. Her forthcoming book is: #Occupy the Bible: What Jesus Really Said (and Did) about Money and Power. “Statistics show that 50% of American…

Park 51 and RLUIPA, Or, Conservatives Hoisted On Their Petard

By Daniel Schultz

…the city to one whopping lawsuit that is extremely likely to succeed,” as Chicago attorney Dan Lauber told Chicago Sun-Times columnist Lynn Sweet. “A federal law adopted by a Republican Congress makes the denial the Republicans seek blatantly illegal.” Several high-profile opponents of the mosque plan—including the American Center for Law and Justice and the Anti-Defamation League—have in the past defended the Religious Land Use and Institutional…

The Sacred and the Dead: I Love You More than Words Can Tell

By David Vanderveen

…y worlds” that have come and gone in the 20 years since their last show in Chicago and Jerry leaving us soon after, the reality goes deeper. Words fail us when we try to describe how much the band meant (and means) to us and how much we love each other. Real rock ‘n’ roll is rooted in getting to the real thing. At its best, it’s about deconstructing previous generations, pretensions, and cutting to the bone of experience. The Dead were real. The i…

The Sacred and the Dead: It’s (Not) Just a Box of Rain

By Cathleen Falsani

…ugh my freshman year of college in 1989, I went to my first Dead show near Chicago. I didn’t have a ticket (and didn’t care so much about the music, really) but wanted to see what all the fuss was about from a safe distance in the parking lot where the aromas and sights and sounds and colors and patterns and vibe of Deadhead central overwhelmed my senses. I bought a silver bangle for $10 and almost 26 years later, it’s still there on my right wris…

Was Blind But Now I See: The Debut of a New Anti-Abortion Strategy

By Kellee Terrell

…ght of attending Converted: From Abortion Provider to Pro-Life Activist, a Chicago conference for former abortion clinic staff, made me wary. As a pro-choice Christian who tends to see anti-abortion activists as zealots with a “by any means necessary” mentality I didn’t know what to expect from a day-long meeting of new converts offering the faithful behind-the-curtain peeks at what they call the “abortion industry.” After making my way past table…

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

By Jeff Sharlet

…’ll take care of you.” In return, you’ll vote early and vote often, as the Chicago political machine used to say. The “post-partisan” political faith Obama has come to embrace offers more help than conservatism but fewer guarantees than secular liberalism. It doesn’t demand 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 “res…

The Protestant Mainline Makes a (Literary) Comeback

By Gary Dorrien

…The New Metaphysicals: Spirituality and the American Religious Imagination(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010); Kathryn Lofton in Oprah: Gospel of an Icon(Berkeley: University of California, 2011); Matthew S. Hedstrom, in The Rise of Liberal Religion: Book Culture and American Spirituality in the Twentieth Century (New York: Oxford, 2013); Elesha J. Coffman, The Christian Century and the Rise of the Protestant Mainline (New York: Oxford, 2…

RD News Round-Up—September 22, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…le of Regnery points out, the company, founded by Henry Regnery in 1947 in Chicago, and [i]nitially affiliated with the University of Chicago’s “Great Books” series, … became a leading publisher of old-guard, conservative writers such as Russell Kirk, James Burnham, and William F. Buckley, Jr.“ After being bought by Eagle Publishing in 1993, the company turned to red-meat conservatism, and published works by such authors as Newt Gingrich, William…