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American Fever: A Tale of Romance and Pestilence

By Michael A. Elliott

…ease is true and which is not, and uncertainty sits at the core of the cultural anxiety it maps. The Manhattan setting of American Fever is the thickest example we have in the United States of a heterogeneous community compacted into a bounded physical space; a place of face-to-face interaction and networks. The novel is not simply about what happens to that community in a time of intense crisis, but what happens to that community in the age of th…

An American Muslim Responds to Muslim Orgs Questioning Armenian Genocide

By Haroon Moghul

…f mainstream Muslim American Organizations,’ which includes the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), the Muslim American Society (MAS), and others, I am concerned that they might appear to speak in my name. Rather than accept, as American Muslims, what happened to our fellow Americans of Armenian origin, this organization chooses to (1) challenge the historicity of the Armenian genocide; (2) pander…

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

By Ed Simon

…ic story of America’s foundation. The conservative reads a tale about Anglo-American Protestant hegemony and the opening up of North American resources. But the radical, perhaps even the mystical interpreter, reads a more allegorically profound story about America as “Mother of Exiles,” a universal space that encompases all ethnicities, cultures, and religions precisely because of its universality. Arguments about the significance of the pilgrims…

White Nationalist Ideology Shines Through at Elite MAGA Conference: Inside NatCon Part II

By Ben Lorber

…zony is hypocritically indulging in racial politics by stressing the “Anglo-American” character of American nationalism while simultaneously disavowing this racial grounding and insisting his project is non-racial. Both Brimelow and Greer complained that NatCon assiduously avoids defining their nationalism in racial or ethnic terms, grounding the ‘American nation’ instead in ostensibly non-racial strata of culture, creed, ideology or aspiration. A…

Gingrich on Obama’s “Kenyan, Anti-Colonial Behavior” and “American Exceptionalism”

By Sarah Posner

…Like D’Souza was birtherism-lite, as Serwer called it, this was Obama-isn’t-a-real-Christian-lite. D’Souza and Gingrich are playing off each other, with Gingrich delivering the latter message to Reed’s minions, while D’Souza delivered his to the readers of, stunningly, Forbes. D’Souza tapped into the “American exceptionalism” argument, too, without the explicit God references: [W]e have been blinded to [Obama’s] real agenda because, across the pol…

A New Book By Esteemed Sociologist Robert Wuthnow Struggles to Show ‘Why Religion is Good for American Democracy’

By Peter Laarman

…dy’s. To his credit, Wuthnow does take note of the way in which, during the 1980s and 1990s, the focus of traditional Catholic discourse around human dignity was increasingly transferred from concern for the dignity of the poor to concern for the fate of the “unborn.” He also takes note of how the language of victimhood—the endless whining about alleged anti-Christian persecution—became a central feature of Religious Right rhetoric during these de…

Unprecedented Anti-LGBTQ Statement By Orthodox Church in America Should Be Christian Nationalist Warning Sign to US Orthodoxy

By Katherine Kelaidis

…n Orthodox jurisdiction, presided over the baptism of twins born to a Greek-American gay couple. As is entirely predictable at this point, while the Archbishop’s decision won praise in many quarters, it was roundly and brutally condemned by conservatives throughout the Orthodox world, including with the jurisdiction he heads. The statement might reasonably be interpreted as a shot at a clerical rival. The OCA and the GOA have a contentious (and so…

4 (or 5) American Muslims For Ben Carson to Interrogate

By Haroon Moghul

…for Ben Carson.” No. 1: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Kareem’s fierce (and clearly un-American) skyhook. Maybe Carson can tell the NBA’s all-time leading scorer, six-time champion and six-time MVP, longtime Los Angeles Laker, coach, author, public intellectual and national icon that he’s got to renounce his faith before he can serve his country. Given Carson’s discomfort with evolutionary theory, I think it reasonable to also speculate on the true reasons f…

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

By Ed Simon

…ic story of America’s foundation. The conservative reads a tale about Anglo-American Protestant hegemony and the opening up of North American resources. But the radical, perhaps even the mystical interpreter, reads a more allegorically profound story about America as “Mother of Exiles,” a universal space that encompases all ethnicities, cultures, and religions precisely because of its universality. Arguments about the significance of the pilgrims…

Where’s Wallnau? A NAR Apostle Takes Aim at Swing Counties in ‘The Battle for the Mountain of Government’

By Frederick Clarkson

…rld Prayer Network Broadcast in July 2023. There she unveiled (1:08:00) the 19-county campaign they call, rather prosaically, Project 19. The choice of the platform was, in its way, as significant as the plan itself, as it demonstrated an intimacy between parts of the MAGA and apostolic movements. The WPNB, which is essentially a glorified Zoom call hosted by Apostle Jim and Rosemary Shindler Garlow, was a natural choice for the small world of the…