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Has American Conservatism Abandoned the Christian Right?

By Bradley Onishi

…an Right. As I argue in my forthcoming book, Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism – And What Comes Next, there’s no coherent way to understand the animus that drives MAGA Nation and Trump’s role as the de facto leader of the Republican Party apart from the half-century span of history from Goldwater to the Big Lie. It’s not that there hasn’t been a counterrevolution in American conservatism. It’s just that Mr. Ho…

North America Has a Hindu Nationalist Problem, and Scholars are On the Frontlines of These Right-Wing Attacks

By Manan Ahmed, Rohit Chopra, and Audrey Truschke

…uerors. This vision trades in crude tropes and demonizes Muslims, who have participated in Indian cultures for well over 1,000 years and are subjected to increasing Hindutva violence in the 21st century. The Hindutva revisionist historical project seeks to rebrand Indian society as Hindu alone, akin to Christian nationalist ambitions in the United States. In India, Hindu nationalism—including its anti-intellectual bent—has grown tremendously in in…

As an African American Who Loves Thanksgiving, Must I Simply Ignore the Historical Suffering of the Wampanoag and Pass the Sweet Potato Pie?

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…consciousness since childhood when I was making hand-turkey paintings and participated in grade-school re-enactments complete with construction paper Pilgrim hats and Native American feather headdresses. Throughout my adult life I’ve struggled with the meaning of the Thanksgiving holiday as a familial celebration while being completely aware of the injustices suffered by the Wampanoag and Native Americans in general. As others have noted here on…

Is Zionism No Longer Able to Offer Solutions to the Present Reality?

By Shaul Magid

…a post two-state reality. The most we get is a “peaceful resolution of the Palestinian conflict” that enables Palestinians to live in “dignity, peace, and security” and “correcting the moral shortcomings of the Occupation as long as it continues.” And then “shrinking the immoral footprint of the occupation.” These words are carefully chosen. They are in many ways a reflection of the recent writing of Micah Goodman both in his Catch 67 and more rec…

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

By Peter Laarman

…lection and a special covenant relationship between God and the elect. She pays particular attention to the Ulster Scots—or Scots-Irish, as they often call themselves—who were “already seasoned settler colonialists,” thanks to their role in colonizing Northern Ireland (Ulster), when they began emigrating in large numbers to British North America during the early 18th century. Mostly made up of militant Presbyterians, this land-hungry warrior cohor…

With Demons Held Responsible These Days for Everything from Covid to LGBTQ Rights, Take a Visual Tour of the History of Demonization

By Ed Simon

…Austrian church, St. Wolfgang im Salzkammergut, fifteenth-century Italian painter Michael Pacher depicts one of Christ’s temptations in the desert, when the Devil implored the messiah to transform stones into bread. The figure in the painting, with his darker skin tone and curly hair, is marked as ambiguously and ethnically “other.” Such a conflation demonstrates how demonization had profoundly violent effects on marginalized communities as Europ…

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

By Austin Lee Steelman

…rrancy, and constitutional originalism remains political orthodoxy for the Republican Party. Donald Trump was elected to the presidency with overwhelming evangelical support behind a promise to appoint originalist Justices, a promise he kept three times to the rapturous delight of his evangelical base. Already, the conservative Supreme Court has, on originalist grounds, declined to address racialized voter suppression, limited the federal welfare…

Is This Tiny Divided Orthodox Nation the Next Front in Russia’s Religious War?

By Katherine Kelaidis

…o the fact that the Christian East in general and Orthodox Christianity in particular have a unique and significant role to play in this emerging global struggle. A cultural zone long in the shadow of its Western brother to the Christian East, so long obsessed with its medieval past, has now been thrust, willingly or not, into the center of a very modern battle. Sadly Ukraine is not the end of this battle. It is very likely just the beginning. And…

Can Eurovision’s Rainbow Arch Undermine Ukraine’s Orthodox Value System? This and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…r criminal records, reports AP. Singapore: Government bans foreigners from participating in or observing Pink Dot celebration We have previously reported that the government of Singapore had banned foreign companies from contributing to Pink Dot, the annual LGBT pride celebration, and 100 local companies stepped in to offer financial support. On Sunday organizers announced that the government had taken another step: only Singapore citizens and per…

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…