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Stephen King Appeals to Gun Advocates’ Individual Responsibility

By Elizabeth Drescher

…hard Bachman. Rage, about a high school boy who takes a gun to his algebra class, kills his teacher, and holds his class hostage, was named as among sources of inspiration in four high school gun violence cases between 1988 and 1997. After the last case, King pulled the novel from publication. Although he insists that he never apologized for writing it, “and never would,” King does acknowledge that the four psychologically troubled youths who cite…

Israel at 60: Zionism’s Fatal Flaw

By Ira Chernus

…s’ human rights? Do you judge it by its world-class universities and world-class science and technology? Or by its growing gap between rich and poor, as the utopian socialism of the kibbutz experiment collapses before the juggernaut of neo-1liberal corporate capitalism? Do you judge it by its vibrant avant-garde cultural scene, or by the way it marginalizes its Arab citizens and its growing population of Asian “guest workers”? Perhaps the only fai…

Modernity’s Fraternity: What Dan Brown Gets Right

By Samuel Biagetti

…affluent gentlemen and professionals, then later a broader array of middle-class farmers and craftsmen, like the Boston silversmith Paul Revere. Their ceremonies celebrated the ability of the human mind to take control over the body and the physical world, and so to ascend toward God—even to become god-like. Masons were encouraged to build confidence in their own intellects, and to form new commercial, religious, and educational institutions. The…

White Supremacy Erases Its Violence: The Predictable Blaming of Antifa

By Stephen Young

…e Supremacy emphasizes how wealthy whites benefit from working- and middle-class whites identifying with them, often against their own economic interests. So, apart from simply failing to take responsibility for their followers’ actions, how does blaming Antifa or BLM for the violence at the Capitol fit into all of this? There’s a long history in the United States of leaders who are aligned with or benefit from White Supremacy exhibiting a very sp…

The Tense History Behind Jimmy Carter’s Liberty U. Commencement Address

By John Fea

…al ideas—the same stuff he tells those who visit his regular Sunday School class at the Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Georgia. For example, Carter told the Liberty graduates that “America has abandoned its leadership…as a champion of a clean and healthy environment,” an indirect reference to Trump’s decision to pull the United States out of the Paris Climate agreement. He also reminded his audience that America has always had a difficult tim…

Teach Your Children Well: Challenging Religion-Based Sexism

By Sikivu Hutchinson

…ice program, my partner Diane Arellano and I train our students to lead in-class workshops on the everyday impact of misogynistic language, stereotypes, and media imagery. Students develop critical consciousness about their shared struggle vis-à-vis the stereotype of the sacrificial good black/Latina “woman of faith.” On several occasions our students have been chastised by girls who argued that sexual violence and high rates of HIV/AIDS contracti…

The Anxiety of White Christian America: A Poll

By Daniel Schultz

…mainline denominations still have healthy representation of white, working-class and rural segments.) Likewise, older and Evangelical respondents are more likely to say the US has lost its Christian identity than younger survey subjects, or any other religious group. Ditto “Is Islam a threat to American values?” When it comes to the question of whether there’s too much immigration from Middle Eastern nations, though, things seem to break down alon…

Change, Not Charity: What Ails the New Left-Right Coalition Against Poverty

By Peter Laarman

…ay. This time the specter of poverty is haunting us—the hardworking middle-class folks being wiped out by the financial meltdown, the foreclosure tsunami, confiscatory health care expenses, and a plummeting job market. Along with fear, there is real anger in middle-class suburbs about the crimes and betrayals of the best and the brightest who ran the casino economy from their well-appointed Wall Street aeries—ran it right into the ground, that is—…

Creationism: Don’t Use the “C-Word”

By Lauri Lebo

…can present what she termed “critical thinking and creationism” in science classes. Board Member David Tate quickly responded: “We let them teach evolution to our children, but I think all of us sitting up here on this School Board believe in creationism. Why can’t we get someone with religious beliefs to teach creationism?” (See my previous posts here and here.) In lobbying for LSEA, the Discovery Institute had worked closely with the Louisiana F…

Eight Theories on the Prickliness of Mitt Romney

By Joanna Brooks

…ight theses: A. a personality flaw B. a result of having been insulated by class privilege C. a result of developing his leadership style in an LDS institutional culture wherein leaders are expected to appear “flawless” and dissent and open disagreement is not sanctioned D. a consequence of a pragmatic-technocratic outlook that values incentives and outcomes over human processes (the New York Times calls it the “Mitt-bot” phenomenon) E. discomfort…