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Soft Supremacy: When “Liking” Love Is Not Enough

By Peter Laarman

…on to Robert Mercer, not Steven Bannon. Get a clue about the white working class rather than consigning all non-elite whites to a “deplorables” basket. Joan Williams’ brilliant short book, White Working Class, would be a good place to start. And here’s why: we will never realize King’s “revolution of values” in this country without overthrowing the rule of wealth—the corporate state—that lies at the heart of all social violence (not to mention apo…

Why Real Political Power Will Not Come From a Revived Religious Left

By Nicholas Laccetti

…ple’s Campaign was King’s solution for building the unity of the poor as a class as a prerequisite for building political power. Indeed, one of the most striking images from the first Poor People’s Campaign is a political cartoon that depicts several pairs of feet walking in unison, labeled as belonging to poor folks of many races — poor whites, blacks, Puerto Ricans, American Indians — and a pair of worried politicians speaking together in the ba…

The Irony of Moral Panic over Surplus Men

By Patricia Miller

…arge enough supply of working class men with stable jobs to entice working class women to marry them. Many working class women correctly calculate that it’s better to be a single mom than to support both a child and an unemployed or sporadically employed husband. The fact that there’s no crisis of family formation among the college educated proves it’s not a matter of cultural influence—or even religiosity. In the end, it’s not a matter of morals,…

Was Student Who Claims She Was Suspended For Saying, “Bless You” Mimicking God’s Not Dead?

By Joseph Laycock

…y Shane Harper) resists, rhetorically humiliating Radisson in front of his class, and inspires non-Christian classmates to convert. The film, an over-the-top piece of anti-intellectualism, portrays educators as modern-day Pharisees who promote ideology rather than critical thinking. So it’s hardly surprising that some Christian students began performing this script in the first week of classes. By equating educators with the villains of the New Te…

Religion, Morality, and the Death of the American Soap Opera

By Katy E. Shrout

…uely Midwestern city in an unknown state. The Hortons were an upper-middle class, apparently Episcopalian family; the patriarch, Tom Horton was a doctor. By the 1980s, they were increasingly overshadowed by the arrival of the working-class, Irish-American Brady family, but members of both of these families continue to play significant roles on the show. The show was first heralded for its realism, but like nearly every soap, came to embrace more f…

Marianne Williamson and Me

By Diane Winston

…alifornia’s 33rd District Congressional seat. Williamson’s visit to my USC class on American spirituality was a boon for me, but it also served her purposes. District 33 cuts through some of the state’s wealthiest communities including Malibu, Beverly Hills and Palos Verdes, and Williamson would be speaking here to potential voters if not volunteers. Meanwhile, I’d have a 21st century incarnation of the 19th century New Thought and Theosophy teach…

The Racial Politics of Atheism

By Sikivu Hutchinson

…t confront white families and white children—atheist, evangelical, working class, middle class or otherwise. Brilliant white youth who want to be oncologists—unlike my 12th grade mentee Karly Jeter, who identifies as Christian—are not told that they come from a dysfunctional culture that only excels at sports and making babies. And they are not excluded from gatekeeping Advanced Placement science courses because their counselors didn’t believe the…

A Reluctant Millennial On The State of Church

By Meghan Florian

…. It should go without saying that he doesn’t look like most of the middle class North American young people this conversation is really about. It’s easy to leave church looking for, or to create, a community in which Jesus does look like us, though. That is the age old human problem from one generation to the next. We are always creating God in our own image, when it is supposed to be the other way around. We try to shape the church around our ge…

Mitt Romney’s Best-Known Mormon Critic Tells it All. One Last Time.

By Joanna Brooks

…University and I fell in love with teaching. Suffolk was an iconic working-class university—in the 1960s that meant working-class first-generation-college white immigrant families. I had young men negotiating grades with me because if they didn’t get a C, they’d get drafted. I investigated how people avoided the draft and became very aware of class divisions in Boston and America at large. The war really turned me into a social critic, a thinker,…

Is Mitt’s Mormonism Responsible for South Carolina Loss?

By Joanna Brooks

…g authentically with voters, his regional identity, his corporate past and class status, and so forth. 4. How religion intersects with economic class in voter behavior is an understudied but potentially important factor in 2012 and beyond. Social theorists often talk about “intersectionality” of race, class, gender, and religion. It would be very revealing, I think, to see data that focuses on the intersection of religion, class, age, and gender. …