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Pious White Reformers and Race, Then and Now

By Peter Laarman

…gies that eventually found the most favor among white leaders in the young Republic. The fact that many thousands of Native Americans were removed by one means or another has mainly to do with all that incredibly valuable land they they controlled—land coveted by the horde of white settlers pouring over the Appalachians and across the Ohio. And the fact that very few free blacks were ultimately settled in Liberia—despite the enormous prestige and…

When Corporations are “Persons” Under the Law: The Real Problem With Health Care

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…altogether bold conception of democratic citizenship in a post-enslavement Republic. Religious groups on all sides of the issue were especially vocal in their various and conflicting advocacies. But the end result was plain: no State can do what the Federal government says you cannot do to an individual citizen. States rights do not trump individual rights. And there are a lot more people who count as citizens, now. “Due process”… “equal protectio…

Ideology is More Than Skin Deep: Why I Can’t Get Along To Go Along

By Daniel Schultz

…for Christian unity are all well and good, but we live in a constitutional republic, not a church. This, as it is said, is not exactly rocket science. But it is apparently a useful reminder these days. To wit, Robert P. Jones, author of Progressive & Religious, responds to critics of the “Come, Let Us Reason Together Governing Agenda” by citing 1 Corinthians to the effect that ears and eyes and hands should live and let live. He then goes on to ch…

You’re Right, Ross Douthat: Donald Trump Is Kind of Like Islam

By Haroon Moghul

…ndidate who got his start with birtherism. And, sorry Ross Douthat, he’s a Republican. That’s the party he chose, but the Party, too, had a choice, and chose him, and every day more Republican elders are lining up behind him. It is unfortunate that, rather than own up to the indigenousness of the ugliness, Douthat attempts to find some other, foreign precedent for it, as if there our moral ignominy is ultimately derivative; it is no different from…

Tim Pawlenty, Bad Fundamentalist

By Michael J. Altman

…hat Pawlenty misses. He’s a bad Fundamentalist. Even if, like Fundamentalists, we only apply common sense philosophy to the Founders and their documents, our answers about how they saw God functioning in the new republic would be as complex as any Fundamentalist interpretation of the Book of Daniel. Fundamentalists valued precision and complexity. Pawlenty only gives vague notions of a “founding under God.”…

America, the Mythical: “Mother of Exiles” or Denier of Safe Haven?

By Ed Simon

…d in the many thousands were traumatized by both the collapse of the godly Republic in Commonwealth England, and the almost apocalyptic violence of the King Phillip’s War with the Wampanoag Indians, necessitating the construction of a new identity separate from that of their mother country. It’s around this time that men like Cotton Mather began to refer to white settlers as “Americans,” a designation which other colonial powers such as the Spanis…

Turkish ‘Lord of the Rings’ Has God, Guts, Girls, and Glory

By Haroon Moghul

…history, with all the delicate contortions required for a secular Turkish Republic to make on behalf of a pluralist, Islamically-oriented but far more demographically diverse predecessor state. It’s also cool to see giant cannons and billowing flags and, in a surreal moment, that stereotypical Muslim call to prayer in the background—not during a battle scene, mind you, but while a talented young woman cuts her hair to mask her gender, to take her…

Is Cardinal Dolan’s Pro-Life Piece More Evidence of Pro-Catholic Bias from RNS Publisher?

By Evan Derkacz

…rage of Catholicism,” wrote Sarah Jones, in her April 27 report in the New Republic on the “Implosion of Religion News Service.” According to the reporting of both Jones and the Columbia Journalism Review’s Stephanie Russell-Kraft, some of the more egregious instances of Gallagher’s editorial meddling, which played a significant role in the firing of respected editor-in-chief Jerome Socolovsky and the subsequent resignations of veteran reporters K…

The Women’s March, Anti-Semitism, and ‘The Jewish Farrakhan’

By Shaul Magid

…hat the rights granted Jews were threatening to the vitality of the German Republic. It was not, Engel argues, a term describing the secularized extension of medieval Christian anti-Judaism. Nor was it used to connote any broad accusation against the Jews. But the term soon took on such baggage. In 1892 an editorial in the Allgemeine Zeitung des Judenthums, likely written by its editor Ludwig Philippson, argued for “an essence” of antisemitism, “a…

C Street Scandal, the Media, the Future of the Family: An Interview with Jeff Sharlet

By Bill Berkowitz

…t might be said to be sort of mainstream (Harper’s, Rolling Stone, The New Republic, Mother Jones) and talked about it on very mainstream television programs (NBC Nightly News, CNN, etc.) and radio (Marketplace, Fresh Air, BBC, etc.), I’ve sort of established ownership of the story. That may be a good thing for my book sales, but it’s bad for journalism, because it discourages other reporters from digging in. Fortunately, there are a lot of solid…