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Billy Graham Was More Like White America’s Surrogate Savior Than “America’s Pastor”

By Peter Laarman

…re it seemed that God’s special anointing of white American folkways was still in effect. Graham’s frequent hobnobbing with presidents reassured all those saved white people and wanna-be-saved white people that our great and godly Republic was still on the righteous path. To function as a surrogate savior, Billy Graham didn’t have to suffer or sacrifice in the Jesus manner. He merely had to remind us that it’s always still possible to be washed wh…

Stem Cell Chronicles: Why Politics and Science Most Certainly Should Not Be Separated

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…He was caught in the middle of a vast political back-and-forth between the Republic of Venice and the Papal States. Even his prodigious telescopes were initially of value to the Venetian navy for scouting out Turkish ships, not for scanning the pockmarked surface of the Moon. So much for de-politicizing science in the name of free enquiry. There is a very real political concern here, and it goes entirely unremarked in the President’s brief announc…

Will the Taliban Actually Remain Somewhat Moderate This Time?

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…sion from outside. The diversity of political positions within the Islamic Republic of Iran give some indication that even a rather rigid religious regime is indeed capable of flexibility and perhaps significant change on its own. Muslim militants in other parts of the world have disagreed with Ayatollah Khomeini and rejected many of his positions. Post-revolution leaders in Iran, including Mohammad Khatami, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, and Hassan Ro…

How Hell Has Shaped America

By Kathryn Gin Lum

…cessary to compel the orderly behavior of citizens in the new, monarchless republic. And they worried that the damnable sins of its individuals would spell the downfall of the nation itself. To put it simply: hell was not antithetical to, but rather part and parcel of, the modern nation-building project in the US. Did you have a specific audience in mind when writing? I wanted to reach both a scholarly and a general audience, so I tried to keep th…

Irish PM Scathing Denunciation of Vatican

By Anthea Butler

…rds of the Prime Minister, “frustrate an inquiry by a sovereign democratic republic.” When the Prime Minister of Ireland tears the church a new one, and implicates the Vatican in criminal activity, recalling the Apostolic Nuncio is a petty, inadequate response if it is not followed up with a direct answer for the materials outlined of the church’s failure in the Cloyne Report. In typical fashion, one of the points made by Fr. Ciro Benedettini of…

Heteronormativity: A Discussion

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…r” and assumed the autonomous, masculine “self governing” ideal of the new Republic. I think that this particular form of American Christianity still hews heavily to that norm because it was fundamentally re-elaborated in that 19th century social context, and they can’t really separate what might be “Christian” according to the New Testament from the most highly valued 19th century social norms. I find the evangelical sacralization of the nuclear…

How Do You Beat a ‘Pretty Damning’ Impeachment Case? You Lie

By John Stoehr

…, according to Blake. That raises an interesting question for a democratic republic such as ours. If the Republicans have gone blind to the truth because they want to go blind to the truth, how on earth are Democratic impeachment managers supposed to get them to see? The Democrats presented and will continue to present a pretty damning political case demanding Trump’s disqualification from holding public office. How do you beat a pretty damning po…

Forget “Nasty,” Trump’s Got a “Disgusting” Problem

By Karen E. Park

…l implications has not gone unnoticed, with the New York Times and the New Republic (among others) having previously written about it. Disgust is both an emotional and visceral response to something that we fear will contaminate us. Rancid food, a decaying corpse, an infected wound—all these call up feelings of disgust in human beings, as do body fluids like blood, semen, saliva, and breast milk. We are disgusted when what’s inside the body comes…

Andrew Sullivan Really Took This Opportunity to Misread Intersectionality?

By Sunnivie Brydum and Evan Derkacz

…les Murray and published an excerpt of The Bell Curve as editor of The New Republic (which, incidentally, alienated his entire staff and poisoned his relationship with mentor Leon Wieseltier). As one writer put it in a 2009 profile: “Sullivan thought it was a serious, scientific work that should be discussed.” He’s clearly changed little on this issue in nearly a quarter century. Setting aside the fact that it wasn’t exactly a departure for Murray…

Muslim Stowaways
on the European
Titanic: “Eurabian” Alarmism 2.0

By Haroon Moghul

…blem.” In “Europe’s Other Crisis,” his most recent contribution to The New Republic, Caldwell presents what may seem at first like typical Eurabian alarmism: Islam and the West are incompatible. Europe with Muslims will cease being Europe. But there is more to it. As Caldwell puts it: “Europe is not rich enough… to withdraw from the world, but for the first time in half a millennium it is not strong enough to engage with the world either.” Maybe t…