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MLK’s ‘Dream’, Unrealized and Undigested

By Svend White

…o young black men who get caught up in America’s scandalously racialized justice system, with its draconian, life-ruining punishments for blacks for offenses that, when perpetrated by whites time and time again “happen” to draw light sentences—we’re hardly out of the woods. The other socioeconomic problems Dr. King valiantly crusaded against are by most accounts alive and well. It seems to me that given America’s glaring gaps today in economic jus…

Ping-Pong Politics After Underwear Bomber

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…d-be Nigerian terrorist to bring down a Delta aircraft over Detroit on Christmas Day must surely rank as the loudest non-explosion whose reverberations have quite literally been heard around the world. International travel over the next week was an adventure, to put it mildly. In Athens, everyone traveling to the United States was patted down and all carry-on items were unpacked and closely examined, without exception; travelers were not permitted…

RDBook: Whither the Religious Left?

By Bill Berkowitz

…ring live-streaming the event on the internet.) Clarkson was one of the first investigative reporters to look deeply at the Religious Right in the US. Often ahead of the pack he broke the story in Mother Jones of the rise of Christian militias years before the Oklahoma City bombing made them national news; he went undercover at the founding strategy conferences of Pat Robertson’s Christian Coalition and revealed in Church & State magazine their pl…

Hamlet’s Wager, or, The Ghost of Capitalism

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ramatically, the despair precipitated by the Wall Street shamans who administer our strange concourse with capitalism’s ownmost specters and demons. In a world where value and surplus are equally invisible, it becomes all-too-easy for those like Bernard Madoff to pretend to create value, as if by magic. And when the house of cards crumbles, as it inevitably it must, then it is not Mr. Madoff, but rather his long-suffering friends, who are put to p…

Comedians on God’s Family Issues

By Gwynne Watkins

…working his way around to the question If God is our father, what happened to our mom? Another great comedian who has pondered the dynamics of God’s family is Eddie Izzard. Here, he imagines God chewing out Jesus for saying weird stuff at the Last Supper. (“Why didn’t you just say, drink this wine, it’s a merlot?”) And for the Christian perspective, here’s comedian Michael Jr. pondering what it must have been like for Jesus’s little brother, the…

The Unbearable Magnetism of Watching Obama Slip on a Banana Peel

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…sks before him. He has weathered criticism from every quarter, and remains steadfast in his commitment to listen to good ideas wherever they come from. Yet, when he is done listening, he is singular in his determination to pass the plan he has decided is best. Then the shouting begins again. It’s no wonder he got testy; the wonder is that it took so long. But there is something new about this presidency, something that sets President Obama apart f…

Thanksgiving Reveals More About Us Than About 17th Century Events

By Ed Simon

…ly Handle the Truth about Thanksgiving? When conservatives decry “revisionist” history, what’s really on trial is history told accurately for the first time. Most of us grew up with halcyon images of benevolent pilgrims sharing a meal with the natives, yet the realities of American colonization have more to do with the Pequod War than with turkey; more with King Philip’s War than stuffing and succotash. Jonathan L. Walton gives an impassioned plea…

Christian Charity Meets Its Match: If You Missed “The Overnighters,” Here’s Why You Should See It Now

By Beatrice Marovich

…ources for, or models of, a more sustainable environmental ethic. What’s most interesting, to me, about this film is that it shifts the interface between religion and the environment, entirely. In The Overnighters religion is neither poison nor cure. Instead, the church becomes a filter, of sorts: a lens through which we see, with a new kind of clarity and a much closer view, the social havoc that is being driven by a major environmental change; a…

Claude, Adieu: A Farewell to Lévi-Strauss

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…me of Lévi-Strauss is “structuralism,” and since we allegedly live in a “post-structuralist” age (a synonym for “post-modern” in many quarters), then Lévi-Strauss may seem a spokesman for a forgotten era. And so, in some ways, he is. But we forget the man at our peril. His wide-ranging anthropological rumination, Tristes Tropiques, is in fact one of the great works of the tumultuous twentieth century. It deserves close attention and even closer re…

What Passover Taught Me About Being Black

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…young child, the highlight of my Easter weekend wasn’t watching the Greatest Story Ever Told, The Robe, or other classic Easter movies. For me, it was watching Cecil B. Demille’s The Ten Commandments, starring Charleston Heston and Yul Brenner. I relished each time Brenner’s Ramses scowled at his viziers and exclaimed, “So let it be written, so let it be done.” My admiration for this cinematic villain was rivaled only by my admiration for Darth V…