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The Religious Origins of Fake News and ‘Alternative Facts’

By Christopher Douglas

…ate its alternative forms of knowledge. This alternative knowledge—the forerunner of today’s alternative facts— took the form of creationism and an alternative Bible scholarship demonstrating the Bible’s inerrancy and traditional authorship. This alternative educational and media ecosystem of knowledge was galvanized and mobilized when the Christian Right emerged in the late 1970s to influence the Republican Party. There were two long-term consequ…

Leper Messiah: A Jesus Freak’s Search for the Meaning of Bowie—A Critical Novella

By Mark Dery

…later. We’re watching her in a 1973 report on the Bowie phenomenon by the BBC news program Nationwide, uploaded to YouTube. “They said ‘e was comin’ ‘round the back! I’ve been waiting for ages to see ‘im,” she wails, agonized at missing the star’s limousine arrive. “Why’re you so upset?” a bemused interviewer asks, across a generational chasm. She looks up, incredulous at the man’s inability to grasp the obvious: “He’s smashing!” Another girl cro…

Virginians may Vote in Elections, But in Counties with Militias Democracy Hangs in the Balance

By Carolyn Gallaher and Priya Dixit

…’] identity and is used as a rationale for their violence.” [19] Catherine Stock, Rural Radicals: Righteous Rage in the American Grain (Cornell University Press, 1996). [20] Amy Cooter, “US Domestic Militias’ Intersections with Government and Authority: How a Sociology of Individualism Informs their Praxis,” in Local Self-Governance and Varieties of Statehood: Tensions and Cooperation, eds. D. Neubert, H. Laugh, and C. Mohamad Klotzback (Springer,…

Why David Brooks Doesn’t Get the Outrage Over AIG

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…tem that only works when there are clear rules, and clear accountability structures with which the rules may be enforced, offenders punished and wrongs redressed. This is what Brooks’s analytic categories seem to miss, and one senses, why he continues to write off populist rage as misguided, or irrelevant, or unhelpful. Here is one number worth crunching politically. To continue to argue in this fashion as unemployment figures surpass the double-d…

The Religious Origins of Fake News and ‘Alternative Facts’

By Christopher Douglas

…ate its alternative forms of knowledge. This alternative knowledge—the forerunner of today’s alternative facts— took the form of creationism and an alternative Bible scholarship demonstrating the Bible’s inerrancy and traditional authorship. This alternative educational and media ecosystem of knowledge was galvanized and mobilized when the Christian Right emerged in the late 1970s to influence the Republican Party. There were two long-term consequ…

Soy Story: Atrocious ‘Reporting’ on Insular Religious Groups

By Eli Federman and James Moxness

…suffer. While cable news outlets sometimes air nonsensical speculation or rumor-as-news, as was the case with the Boston Bombing, there’s a glaring failure of journalistic integrity when it comes to reporting on obscure religious groups. It’s tempting to believe that insular religious societies are treated by some as a “free pass” from engaging in good journalism. And the line between news, documentary, docudrama, and entertainment is frequently…

London Calling: “Our Great War Is a Spiritual War”

By Elizabeth Drescher

…involvement in rioting that eventually prompted an anemic apology from the BBC after video of the interview spread from YouTube to Facebook to Twitter and so on around the world. Only vaguely satisfactory, but surely better than the connived executions of Wat Tyler, John Ball, and others who spoke on behalf of the 1381 insurgents. All Out of Opiates in England Setting the social tone aright has long involved encouraging religious piety—acts of dev…

LGBT Victories at Olympics, Struggles in Brazil; Catholic Bishops Organizing Anti-Marriage Equality Protests in Mexico; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…arjorie Enya decided to make her move. She found her girlfriend, Brazilian rugby player Isadora Cerullo and popped the question. Girlfriends became fiancees. Then two days later, Brazilian judo star Rafaela Silva came out on national TV here after winning a gold medal in these Olympics. Moments like these happening in Brazil should come as no surprise. The nation has a reputation as a gay-friendly country. Gay marriage became legal here in 2013 an…

The Anti-Trans Hate Machine’s Conspiracies Don’t Stop at the US Border

By Annika Brockschmidt

…forefront of Europe’s anti-trans bigotry—with even some leftist or liberal news outlets like the Guardian or the BBC enabling the effort, the UK is far from the only place in Europe where anti-trans hatred thrives. Just last week, the well-known conservative, yet still “respectable,” German newspaper, Die Welt, escalated the mainstreaming of right-wing talking points. A number of researchers wrote an op-ed, in which they accused the ARD and ZDF, t…

Pope’s US Visit Provokes Intense Attention; New Vatican Book on Man-Woman Complementarity & New Int’l Report on Christian Role Models for LGBT Equality; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…mong those on the altar at the papal mass in Madison Square Garden to do a reading. Rocca read from the book of Isaiah in Spanish; his mother is an immigrant from Colombia. The pope ended his US trip in Philadelphia, where the Catholic Church’s World Meeting of Families was taking place. LGBT Catholics were forced to move a gathering on gender identity issues to a Methodist Church after Archbishop Charles Chaput instructed a local parish to disinv…