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Channeling T.S. Eliot, Ross Douthat Fears The Loss of Taboo

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…some interesting dimensions to this topic but in short Arsalan Iftikhar at CNN.com said it best when, echoing RD’s Hussein Rashid, he concluded: Sadly, instead of dealing with the real cases of racism, bigotry and xenophobia regularly injected into our public airwaves by some of our political leaders and opinion makers, we have instead allowed ourselves to get sucked into a faux controversy involving two no-name idiots with a radical website takin…

The Black and White (and Blood-Red) Roots of ISIS

By Hasan Azad

…were protected by the State, and were free to practice their religion. If CNN reports are to be believed, Christian men are being beheaded, as are children, and the women are being taken as wives by ISIS members. If such reports are true, these acts are in major contravention of the most basic precepts of Islamic rule. But then again we are dealing with a group that draws its inspiration from Wahhabism, a fundamentally anti-intellectual tradition…

This is No Ordinary Anti-Blackness — The Racist History of the Pet-Eating Conspiracy

By Kyrah Malika Daniels and Dianne M. Stewart

…ants. Despite the rebuttals from Ohio leaders, Vance doubled down, telling CNN’s Dana Bash that the story was fabricated and declaring “[if I must] create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that’s what I’m going to do.” Later in the interview, he tried to pivot and reframe his comments, but the cat is out of the bag. Let’s be clear: this is no ordinary anti-Blackness. It’s compo…

BSA Gay Okay?—Delay.

By Joanna Brooks

…lining up on both sides of the issue. Last night, John Gustav Wrathall, vice president of Affirmation, the nation’s oldest and largest LGBT Mormon Association, who earned his Eagle Scout award within an LDS-affiliated BSA troop, made his case on CNN for including gay scouts and leaders. Affirmation and Mormons Building Bridges, a grassroots group that seeks to foster reconciliation and compassion around LGBT issues in LDS communities, are callin…

Maybe Millennials Are Just Realizing That ‘God is Dead’

By Hollis Phelps

…nd membership. All of which leads me to Rachel Held Evans’ recent piece on CNN’s religion blog, titled “Why millennials are leaving the church” which has gone viral this past week—at least to the extent that the term “viral” can be applied to posts about religious trends in the United States. Evans, author of the popular A Year of Biblical Womanhood, expresses her frustration with church leaders who think that getting millenials back to the church…

RDBook: Huckabee ♥’s Nobody

By Kyle Mantyla

…sh Huckabee rehashes an episode from the debate at St. Anselm College when CNN moderator Wolf Blitzer asked for his views on evolution. Fed up with being pushed to the sidelines only to be asked a question that had nothing to do with the presidency, Huckabee recounts how he unleashed his “pent-up frustration,” proclaiming that the question was unfair and had nothing to do with his qualifications. But since Blitzer asked, he wanted to make it clear…

Dems Should Take Notes From Elizabeth Warren’s Pitch-Perfect Answer on Faith

By Daniel Schultz

Elizabeth Warren spoke about her faith at a recent CNN town hall meeting (as candidates do). Her answer was great, and it’s worth taking a minute to understand why. First, let’s roll the clip: https://twitter.com/ewarren/status/1107841344553316352 I am an admitted Warren fan, though I haven’t backed her in the 2020 primary. But this is first of all a master class in taking an off-message question and steering the subject back to what the candidat…

Survival of the CrossFittest: After a Schism Over Racism Can the Fitness Empire Shed its Culture of Whiteness?

By Cody Musselman

…ssFit Inc. was unable to state Black Lives Matter. (Two months later, in a CNN interview, Roza finally did state that Black Lives Matter.) Enthusiasm over new leadership threatens to obscure the culture of whiteness (and militarism) at the core of CrossFit’s traditions, and to brush past the measures necessary for dismantling this culture. Questions remain over what traditions—if any—from its past can continue without recreating the same grammar o…

Blinken and ‘Blinkered’: Two Oath-of-Office Stories Embody a Divided America

By Andrew L. Seidel

…eme positions and overwrought vanity—she is constantly filming herself—led CNN’s Em Steck and Andrew Kaczynski to rediscover her conspiracy-driven videos and social media posts, helping fuel calls for her expulsion from Congress. The second image in my diptych of division was a video of her leading a group through congressional office buildings ranting about how Reps. Tlaib and Omar are “not really official” because they did not swear in with a ha…

Army Disinvites Graham to Prayer Day

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…yer Task Force.) “True Islam cannot be practiced in this country,” he told CNN’s Campbell Brown last December. “You can’t beat your wife. You cannot murder your children if you think they’ve committed adultery or something like that, which they do practice in these other countries.” Graham later tried to temper his remarks by saying that he had Muslim friends. However, the son of famed evangelist Billy Graham has a history of comments that bothere…