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The Story of ‘In God We Trust,’ Our Christian Nationalist Motto [Part 1]

By Andrew L. Seidel

…e American founding, but rather four score and seven years later, in 1863. Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation went into effect on January 1 of that year, conscriptions followed, as did some of the war’s bloodiest battles, including Chickamauga and Gettysburg. Brothers were killing brothers—more than 2 percent of the population, or about eight million Americans today, would die. Families and the country were being torn apart. Three men recognized…

True Detective’s Occult Conspiracy

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…portunity to enumerate the show’s semi-obscure references. Noir aficionado Lincoln Michel gives us a reading list of the Gothic novels the show draws from; Louisianan Adrian Young writes in Slate about True Detective’s setting as a cultural landscape; while Emily Nussbaum’s smart feminist critique in last week’s New Yorker notes what’s not there, namely three-dimensional female characters. My own humble contribution to this critical bumper crop ha…

The Specter on the Left

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…er the bullying conducted in the name of policy and Party purity. Remember Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island? As Arlen Specter sees it, the Party abandoned him well before he left the Republican Party. This question of ideological purity is an interesting one. There are radical conservatives, like Rush Limbaugh, who are quick to cry “good riddance,” and who insist that only a partisan purge of such moderate tendencies can present a unified electoral…

Why Al Mohler offered to “Host” Kentucky’s U.S. Senate Race Debates

By Mike Greer

…pecter of political collusion. McConnell is on record saying that he wants Lincoln-Douglas style debates—no questions from the media or the public and no in-studio audience. Mohler and McConnell are probably just trying to box Grimes in. If she refuses to accede to Mohler’s constrictive “invitation” she will likely be accused of ignoring and insulting Kentucky’s “evangelical Christians.” If she should consent to Mohler’s terms she could fairly exp…

Court Rules: Feminism is Not a Religion

By Susan Henking

…initional strategy in The Interpretation of Cultures. And certainly, Bruce Lincoln’s definition of religion in his work Holy Terrors rejects the idea that astrophysics is religion (on the grounds of the absence of a notion of transcendence); might Judge Kaplan have drawn on those arguments? Of course, Judge Kaplan did not, but he might have cited either point; or litigators might have drawn on these views. What is scary is that many definitions of…

When Freedom Hurts

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…se of frustration and aggrievement that creates the temptation to cut what Lincoln famously called our lingering “bonds of [civic] affection” and”mystic chords of [civic] memory.” But these are important temptations to resist. How to avoid a violation of individual rights in the name of principle? How to avoid terrorism in the name of human rights and the war against terror? There is only one way: by refusing to suspend the rules for anyone at any…

Alabama Gov. Claims Only Evangelicals are His Brothers and Sisters

By Matthew Bowman

…nation — echoed through the language of American politicians from Adams to Lincoln to McKinley and into the Cold War. And there’s the conundrum. Is there a place for rhetoric like Robert Bentley’s—rhetoric that gets uncomfortably more specific than the generic references to divine favor and just gods that make up American civil religion—in American politics today? Bentley himself, despite his worldview, seemed to wonder. Standing behind a pulpit…

No End in Sight: White Evangelicals Stick with Trump’s White Nationalist GOP

By Peter Laarman

…pace the wonderful rhetoric of a couple of brilliant moderate Illini named Lincoln and Obama) is about subjugation and supremacy and greed—and not, in fact, about hope and change. White domination has always been, and still is, America’s middle name. Much as religious liberals wish to pretend otherwise, the “enlightened” current in this history has almost always been on the defensive. The exceptions (Abolition/Reconstruction, the New Deal, and the…

Reflections on an Ineffective Negro Leader

By Jonathan L. Walton

…uch as Christopher Columbus, John Winthrop, George Washington, and Abraham Lincoln. Cultural memory, however, can be deceptive. It has the telescopic tendency to look beyond the many valleys along the historical landscape to hone narrowly in on what the passage of time has deemed the high moments. Simply put, it allows us to elude being on the wrong side of history. This is particularly true of America, given her affinity toward future-oriented op…

Public Shrines to Treason: Charlottesville and the Cult of Confederate Memorialization

By Spencer Dew

…merica, merely to transform it into something closer to their imagined pre-Lincoln utopia. Hence Duke’s “turning point,” the “join or die” moment for Americans who hold to nostalgia for an Old South that never was, a General Lee who never was. “Unite the Right” forces a decision: link the battle flag claimed as “heritage” to the Nazi flag or repudiate the white supremacism and white nationalism, the anti-black fantasies and revisionist histories o…