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Cheese State Reality Check: On The Wisconsin Idea and the Social Gospel

By Daniel Schultz

…m dairy on campus sells probably the best ice cream in the state. Likewise Charles Van Hise, the long-serving president of the UW is remembered with a hall where generations of students have studied foreign languages. People outside of Badgerland might be more familiar with Robert “Fighting Bob” LaFollette, founder of the Progressive Party in the early 20th century, and still today an inspiration to lefties. Enter to win a $50 Amazon gift card! Cl…

A New Book Explains How the Christian Right Has Gotten Selective Denial Down to a Science

By Antony Alumkal

…rous the classic psychoanalytic literature on homosexuality really was. In Charles Socarides’s The Overt Homosexual, he discusses some of the young women whose families forced them to seek treatment for lesbianism. “She may display intense envy of the penis by hostility toward the male analyst.” Dude, seriously? I hope you don’t play the penis card every time a woman gets mad at you. In any case, Christian Right leaders argue that the earlier deci…

Public Shrines to Treason: Charlottesville and the Cult of Confederate Memorialization

By Spencer Dew

…ame by which to give meaning to life. This civil religion was described by Charles Reagan Wilson as the “religion of the Lost Cause,” though this name speaks in the classic double-voicedness of the Old South (think, “bless your heart” as meaning anything but). The “cause” on which this civil religion is predicated—white supremacy and white nationalism—is understood as worth maintaining at the cost of blood and never truly “lost,” merely suffering…

Soft Supremacy: When “Liking” Love Is Not Enough

By Peter Laarman

…ted calls for brotherhood, etc., too often partake of what Times columnist Charles Blow pinpointed with devastating accuracy as “passive white supremacy”: The position of opposing racial cruelty can operate in much the same way as opposition to animal cruelty — people do it not because they deem the objects of that cruelty their equals, but rather because they cannot countenance the idea of inflicting pain and suffering on helpless and innocent cr…

What Happens When An American President Believes He is Above the Law?

By Spencer Dew

…ce Friday have located this move in relation to “incipient fascism” (which Charles Kaiser describes as “open encouragement of Nazis… a pardon without even pretending to go through the normal channels of the Justice Department,”) and even as an impeachable offense in its own right as a pardon “for willfully refusing to follow the Constitution and violating the rights of people inside the U.S.” As Northwestern University law professor Martha Reddish…

You’ve Been Warned: Reading Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America in the Trump Era

By Christopher Douglas

…1940, during which American aviator, anti-Semite, and fascist sympathizer Charles Lindbergh defeats President Roosevelt in the November election. History as we know it alters course: the isolationist administration signs agreements with Nazi Germany and Japan recognizing their areas of influence and conquest and pledging to stay out the war. Pearl Harbor doesn’t take place, and the allies fight on without U.S. support. Meanwhile, a newly vocal, n…

New World A-Coming: How Black Religion Helped Shape Racial Identity

By Judith Weisenfeld

…about the cover? I’m very happy with the cover, which features a mural by Charles White with major figures from African American history. Is there a book out there you wish you had written? Which one? Why? So many to choose from! I’ve been thinking a lot lately about Toni Morrison’s Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (which she published 25 years ago) and James Baldwin’s The Devil Finds Work. Both are beautifully written…

Mormon Leaks: Boring Meetings with Interesting Implications

By Mary Barker

….com/watch?v=qOFI5J-W7Wc Science of morality… immoral In 1966, 25-year-old Charles Whitman went on a killing spree at the University of Texas. In a suicide note left behind, Whitman asked that an autopsy be conducted on his body as he was convinced that something biological accounted for his actions. The autopsy found a tumor on his brain that was suspected of preventing him from controlling his emotions and behavior. Whitman’s is just one of many…

If Religious Leaders’ Valuable Words on Election Vitriol Fall in the Woods Do They Make a Sound?

By Daniel Schultz

…’re reading this article.) We have lost the shared pool of meaning, if not Charles Taylor’s “sense of enchantment,” that funded leaders’ ability to speak normatively to the wider world. No religiously-unaffiliated voter is ever going to step back from the brink of madness because the Episcopal House of Bishops called for prayer. (Indeed, there’s evidence that America’s problem child draws a good deal of support from less-religious voters.) Because…

An Untold Tale: American Fiction vs. The Religious Right

By Christopher Douglas

…ow do you feel about the cover? I love it. The top left corner is William Blake’s illustration of God speaking to Job from the whirlwind. Job is an incredibly important book in the Bible for the theological question of pain and human suffering. Job comes up in three novels I talk about—Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian, Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49, and the evangelical bestseller The Shack, by William Paul Young, which is sort of a Book of Job me…