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Seven Years After Hurricane Katrina, Reflecting on the Fallacy of Divine Retribution

By The Editors

…e, Isaac is now officially at hurricane strength, and on a path toward the Louisiana coast—seven years to the day after Katrina’s devastating assault. And while the media licks its chops at the very newsworthy possibility of a GOP convention blown to bits by an act of God, our thoughts are with those who anxiously await Isaac’s landfall. We thought this would be a good time to bring back some of our finest writers’ meditations on the highs—and lo…

Evolution Challenged in ‘Textbook’ Case: As Goes Texas, So Goes the Nation

By Lauri Lebo

…nsas, in Ohio, in Cobb County, Georgia, even 1989’s Edwards v. Aguillardin Louisiana—and the motives are always the same. People of fundamentalist faiths say they are only standing up for science. They deny that they are trying to lead a religious revolution. An Evolving Creationism But Don McLeroy says he has evolved. In January 2008, as I was reporting on the “strengths and weaknesses” controversy, he wrote me an e-mail in which he referenced th…

Pennsylvania School Voucher Plan Would Allow Religious Discrimination

By Lauri Lebo

…education bill that includes school voucher funding. Other states, such as Louisiana and Florida, are considering similar legislation. But Pennsylvania remains at the forefront of the debate. Nowhere else has such a strange mix of bedfellows come together in support of vouchers. As Talk2Action reported last month: Pennsylvania could be a case study for nationwide anti-public education partnerships, formed by Religious Right activists joining force…

Want to Know What Public Education Would Look Like Under Project 2025? Just Take a Look at Oklahoma

By Andrew L. Seidel

…’s cultivated, which has almost certainly cost students their lives. After Louisiana was sued for requiring public schools to display the Ten Commandments (by some of the same groups that sued Oklahoma for the religious public school), Walters, suffering from one of the worst cases of Christian nationalist FOMO I’ve ever seen, rushed to announce that, “effective immediately,” he would force “all Oklahoma schools … to incorporate the Bible, which i…

The Return of Christian Terrorism

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…ate might be ready for such an experiment, he hesitated and then suggested Louisiana and Mississippi, or, he added, “maybe one of the Dakotas.” Not all Reconstruction thinkers have endorsed the use of violence, especially the kind that Bray and Hill have justified. As Reconstruction author Gary North admitted, “there is a division in the theonomic camp” over violence, especially with regard to anti-abortion activities. Some months before Paul Hil…

Rev. William Barber: Jazzman for Justice

By Peter Heltzel

…European folk music and opera. This new creative concoction originated in Louisiana where Creole culture was prominent. There French colonizers had intermarried with Native Americans, African Americans and the Spanish, creating an unprecedented zone of intercultural interaction. The historical fact of racial and cultural mixing opens a window to understanding what jazz originally was: An essentially intercultural and, therefore, subversive phenom…

Mike Johnson’s Porn-Monitoring isn’t Just ‘Creepy’ — it’s a Window to the Fascist Desire Driving the White Evangelical Will to Power

By Jessica Johnson

…e War on Technology conference hosted by Cypress Baptist Church in Benton, Louisiana. Some pronounced Johnson’s use of a porn detection service creepy, weird, and a potential security breach given his office; while others saw it as normal, common, and even admirable. Where people fell on the spectrum of judgment depended on how much they understood, approved of, and lived with evangelical Christians’ views on porn. Despite the initial news coverag…

Robot Kills a Worker in Germany… Who’s to Blame?

By Hilary Ledwell

…their masters and killing humans. According to one 1932 story that ran in Louisiana, an inventor was demonstrating his cyborg’s precision with a firearm when the cyborg grabbed the gun, turned on the master, and critically wounded him. Of course, this never happened. As nearly as historians can tell, the inventor accidentally discharged the firearm while nestling it in his invention’s “hand.” Still, the market for such stories speaks to our simul…

Damn You Auto-Correct: Creationist Edition

By Lauri Lebo

…l, perhaps?) Expect the battles over this issue to take place in Texas and Louisiana. Well, last week, the Foundation for Thought and Ethics appeared on a list of publishers who plan to submit supplementary materials for review this spring by the Texas Board of Education for its science curriculum. So what is the Foundation for Thought and Ethics? The same folks who published Pandas and People, the intelligent design textbook that was featured so…

Running Against the Devil: Trump’s Conspiracy-Laden Fight Against Powers of Darkness

By Carmen Celestini

During five years of research in southwest Louisiana for my book “Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right,” I came to know many white, older tea party enthusiasts. Nearly all now support Donald Trump. It was because of his penchant for conspiracies, not in spite of it. – Arlie Russell Hochschild, Washington Post, 11/7/16 In mid-October Alex Jones, host of Infowars, infamous breeding ground of conspiracy theories, ann…