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The Rundown Truth: Scientology Changes Strategy in War with Media

By Hugh B. Urban

…form that same year. One of the first reviews of the book appeared in The New Republic in 1950, describing Hubbard’s new science of the mind as a remarkably “bold and immodest mixture of complete nonsense and perfectly reasonable common sense, taken from long-acknowledged findings and disguised and distorted by a crazy, newly invented terminology.” Equally severe criticisms followed throughout the 1950s as his newly-founded Church of Scientology…

It’s Theology, Not Baseball: Misunderstanding Iraq’s Sectarian Conflicts

By Amyn B. Sajoo

…and Yemen to Afghanistan, northern Pakistan, Mali, and the Central African Republic. It is also true that transitions from authoritarian to looser forms of governance are fraught with high political risk, as in ex-Yugoslavia, Egypt, and Iraq. Moreover, most of these radical groups, including the “Islamic State,” have a record of cynical gangsterism, routinely taking hostages and terrorizing targets for ransom. Many of their recruits are ex-cons an…

‘Hello, Trump Warriors!’ Little-Known Preachers and Rabble Rousers are the Unregulated Id of the Felon’s First Rally

By Jeff Sharlet

…but the signal is strong. Today, her mission is to destroy; her target is New York. “I am especially pissed off at the state of New York!” Its crime: the release of the illegal, “this monster,” who went to Georgia and killed “our girl,” Laken Riley. Therefore, New York’s courts have no standing: They dispatch brown-skinned killers (he was released after an arrest for operating a car dangerously with a child) to murder pretty White girls and yet c…

How Evangelicalism’s Twin Seeds of Biblical Literalism and Constitutional Originalism Spelled the End of Roe

By Austin Lee Steelman

…d Black suffrage, women’s suffrage, military conscription, the creation of new National Parks, a federal Child Labor Amendment, New Deal agencies, and, above all, the proposed Federal Department of Education. However, Machen, a Princeton Seminary Professor and later founder of Westminster Seminary, was better remembered for championing his conservative interpretation of another text: the Bible. In the early 1920s, as the Fundamentalist-Modernist C…

The Right is Deeply Divided Over Support for Israel — Though It’s Not About Justice for Palestinians

By Ben Lorber

…al dark web’ author Bret Weinstein, “preparing to make a stand to save the republic from the deep state. Events in the Middle East have predictably destroyed the momentum. People who admired each other last week eye each other now with suspicion.” In a similar vein, Vivek Ramaswamy told Tucker Carlson “I do think we have a real fundamental ideological divide in the Republican Party. And we ought to have that debate in the open. I think we’re not h…

Exclusive: Columnist Jonathan Merritt on his Sudden Departure From Religion News Service

By Kaya Oakes

…writing for Religion News Service. As Sarah Jones recently reported in the New Republic, the 84-year-old wire service has been undergoing what many insiders see as a “spectacular implosion,” with editor Jerome Socolosky being fired in an email by publisher Tom Gallagher, and veteran reporters Kimberly Winston and Lauren Markoe resigning soon thereafter. In the letter, Merritt wrote that his departure was due to “irreconcilable differences” between…

A Christian Nationalist by Any Other Name… Is Still a Christian Nationalist

By Bradley Onishi

…to the Pledge of Allegiance as president, and in 1955 was declared (by the Republican National Committee) “not only the political leader, but the spiritual leader of our times.” Now there was a real white Christian nationalist. By using the example of Eisenhower, Woodward is extending his argument. You can see him shrugging innocently before muttering: “If Eisenhower was a Christian nationalist, well then color me one too, am I right boys?” Here’s…

Zeroes and Sums: Is It Wrong to Praise Paul’s Positions?

By Peter Laarman

…himself has said about the newsletters, uncovered several years ago by The New Republic, is that he personally didn’t write or read the vile stuff.* Right now, with Paul still in the race, the editors at TNR simply urge us to shut our ears to everything he has to say. In their view he’s just a really, really bad actor, guilty of unspeakable bigotry and thus unworthy of any serious attention. To their credit, TNR’s editors allow that, in addition…

Whatever Happens with ‘Roe’ It’ll Be The Consequence of Six Conservative Justices’ Belief in Authoritarian Lies

By John Stoehr

…cially to themselves, to cover for its real purpose—restoring the American republic to a purer, more Eden-like, state of Christian feudalism. Abortion is about far more than a woman’s right to choice or an embryo’s right to life, or whatever framing that’s convenient at a given political moment. As with much else after the election of America’s first Black president, the political movement against abortion is really a political movement against a…

Kuwait “Morals Committee” Announced Deportation of 76 Gay Men; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…s a self-governing country in the South Pacific in “free association” with New Zealand. Taiwan: Marriage opponents using new recall law to target pro-equality lawmakers The Taipei Times reports that opponents of marriage equality “have benefited from changes to the civil servants’ recall act,” which now requires only a 25 percent voter turnout for a recall vote. Marriage equality opponents claim that they have gathered enough signatures to force a…