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The Battle for the Meaning of Religious Freedom Day

By Frederick Clarkson

…salaries of Christian ministers. (In contrast, and much to its credit, the New York State Senate passed a Religious Freedom Day resolution that commemorates the Virginia Statute and its general purpose and historical significance.) Many of those promoting versions of the Project Blitz resolution would no doubt disagree with the misuse of religious freedom to steer the nation toward Christian dominion. But that doesn’t change the fact that some are…

The Missing Element in the Conversation on Christian Nationalism and Freedom: Whiteness

By Peter Laarman

…remacy and prevent Southerners from falling under the domination of ‘Black Republicans.’ The newer media conversation surrounding problematic American freedom also tends to gloss over the essential Christian connection, which only becomes fully visible with the benefit of historical depth. It’s here that we uncover the link between a weaponized Christianity and colonization itself. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz opens up the Christian connection in her priz…

McCarthy, Born Again and Retooled for Our Time

By Sarah Posner

…n Schwarz retired in 1998, Noebel took over the publication of his monthly newsletter, The Schwarz Report, lauding his friend because he “took Communism seriously and battled it his whole life. He knew in his heart it was the very mask of Satan (who lies, steals, murders and destroys —John 10:10). He had the courage to tell the naked truth about it while the New York Times lied about it for nearly the whole 20th century.” Noebel’s reissue of the S…

The Heresy of Compromise

By Peter Manseau

…the first modern pope” had to say amounted to nodding approval (“That your Republic is progressing and developing by giant strides is patent to all…”), which at times seemed to take credit for the success it praised. In a rhetorical flourish, the pope even laid claim to the nation’s neonatal survival: “When America was, as yet, but a newborn babe, uttering in its cradle its first feeble cries, the Church took it to her bosom and motherly embrace.”…

Conservatism’s Bulldog Claims Psychology Tilts Liberal

By Ira Chernus

…and as a Jew with relatively newly-minted political rights, he also had to promote the democracy of the Third Republic against its ultra-nationalist conservative critics. Of course democracy could so easily lead to laws and values dictated by the masses—the same rude mobs calling for Dreyfus’ blood in the streets of Paris. How, then, to harmonize free thought with devotion to the highest moral values? Again, education was the answer—schools that…

Historian John Ragosta Discusses the Context and Inspiration for ‘Religious Freedom’ in the U.S.

By Frederick Clarkson

…without freedom to think and believe, you could not have the other two. A republic could not work if government and church officials (what Jefferson referred to as an alliance of “kings, nobles, and priests”) were trying to control what we think or prescribe what was the “best” religion or which people were the “best” citizens based upon their religious beliefs. If people were to make informed political choices themselves, they had to be free to…

Is Darwin Responsible for the Chimp Attack?

By Gretchen Koch

…to her face, neck, and hands. The day after that story hit the papers, the New York Post ran a cartoon depicting two policemen standing over the body of a chimpanzee they had just shot, with one commenting to the other that: “They’ll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill.” Due to President Obama’s key role in the stimulus debate, this has been widely interpreted to mean that the chimpanzee in the cartoon represents him, which w…

Dilemmas of American Empire: Can Obama Pull Off a Game-Changer in Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan?

By Gary Dorrien

…f this will take decades to play out, well beyond the blink of an American news cycle. Iraq is broken into rival groups of warlords, sectarian militias, local gangs, foreign terrorists, political and ethnic factions, a struggling government, and a deeply corrupted and sectarian police force. The Sunnis are appalled that a Western invader paved the way to a Shiite government allied with Iran. They are deeply opposed to the new Constitution. They wa…

Obama and King: History in Motion

By Leslie D. Callahan

…io station for New York City. Among all of the callers who expressed their New York Democratic glee, a conservative Republican who had voted for John McCain called in to say that while he was driving home after the election, he thought about the fact that when he was born in the early 1960s, many African Americans were not allowed to vote and their children were attacked by dogs and with fire hoses for trying to go to school. Remembering that, he…