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Pox Americana: Franzen’s Tragic Vision

By Peter Laarman

…er the spell of his UVA roommate’s armchair warrior father, a Martin Peretz-Richard Perle amalgam of swaggering self-importance. Walter explodes into cathartic rage against Haven’s treachery when he learns the unbearable truth of Patty’s long-ago treachery with Richard. Joey’s epiphany (and the start of his eventual redemption) comes when he sees news footage of US soldiers being massacred because their Polish trucks break down. Mockery of Freedom…

Well, the Harris-Trump Debate Happened — Now Enjoy Your Freedom and Choose Wisely

By Mary Rambaran-Olm

…onal medical journal, The Lancet, conservative estimates point to more than 180,000 people in Gaza having been killed (both directly and indirectly) in what many experts are calling a genocide expediated by the current US administration. What the debate revealed was that, in their effort to be crowned Israel’s Most Staunch Supporter, Trump and Harris argued over who has the more impressive pro-Israel bonafides. Neither candidate answered the quest…

Convicted Wall Street Con Artist Finds New Target: Gays

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…iscredited professionals like Paul Cameron who was expelled from the APA in 1983. The “ex-gay” track record of “curing” gays and lesbians is so dismal that most of the organizations like Love in Action no longer promise heterosexuality to those “struggling” with homosexuality but instead promises help to “deal with temptations successfully when they arise.” But, perhaps the “ex-gay” movement is the perfect home for someone like Goldberg – who was…

House Votes to Repeal DADT

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…for sexual assaults in the military. A review of the “case synopses” of all 1,643 reports of sexual assault reported by the four branches of the military for Fiscal Year 2009 (October 1, 2008 through September 30, 2009) found that over eight percent (8.2%) of all military sexual assault cases were homosexual in nature. Yet homosexual activist groups themselves have admitted that less than three percent of Americans (2.8% of men and 1.4% of women)…

Debt Peonage Update: Making Home Unaffordable

By Peter Laarman

…ocrisy, I’m surprised those ads aren’t causing copies of the papers to auto-incinerate. B of A, like other banks, targeted minorities for subprime loans in the first place and is exploiting them a second time now. This, not “Gates-gate,” is the racial profiling the country should be talking about. In April I wrote a longer commentary here on Tom Geoghegan’s apt observation that today’s bankers aren’t like the bankers of old who actually wanted to…

Silence of Latino Religious Leaders Enable GOP Tolerance of Trump Spectacle

By Arlene M. Sanchez Walsh

…ocks are from those same immigrant classes Trump called rapists and disease-carriers. After weeks of scouring the news and press releases, and having a Google alert at the ready. I searched for the op-eds of scorn, judgment, and coals heaped on Trump’s head. Instead, apart from National Latino Evangelical Coalition founder Gabriel Salguero, who called Trump’s comments xenophobic, I found a great deal of silence. Calling Trump xenophobic isn’t a st…

At This Week’s Meeting, Will SBC Vote For Voddie Baucham, The Homeschooling ‘Star’ Who Embraces the Right Wing Theology at the Heart of the Abuse Scandal?

By R.L. Stollar

…uiverfull, Christian Patriarchy, the Family-Integrated Church, and the Stay-at-Home Daughter (SAHD) Movement. For years he taught at homeschool conventions around the United States, advocating for his ideal of the Christian family. In 2008, another evangelical homeschool leader said Baucham was “the most sought-after homeschool conference speaker around the country.” Family is probably the most significant concern for Baucham—and his thoughts on f…

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

By Roger O. Friedland

…date’s tone or vocabulary, I want the meanest, toughest, son of a you-a you-know-what I can find — and I believe that’s biblical.” In their eyes America is now locked in a cosmic battle against evil, an apocalyptic war. On the inside there are secularists, like “Killary,” who allow women to take the lives of the ensouled through abortion and who violate the sanctity of marriage by providing access to that sacrament to gays and lesbians. On the out…

Religion and Other Animals

By Paul Waldau

…ncounter animals most frequently. At the same time, more households in the United States today have companion animals than have children. Polls consistently indicate that an astonishing number of people—in some cases more than ninety-nine percent—hold their dog or cat to be a “family member.” Communities of faith are among the institutions that are most responsive to the complex connections between humans and other animals. One increasingly finds…

Mark Twain’s Blasphemy

By Michael A. Elliott

…afer book to read over the last century. This process took shape in the mid-twentieth century, when Cold War humanists in the United States sought out works that could solidify a canon of literary nationalism. They found in young Huck an iconoclastic individualism, a wish to cut free of institutions and resist totalitarian regimes. Huck’s friendship with Jim, and his struggle to understand his moral obligation to the escaped slave, served as an id…