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A Third Reconstruction? Rev. William Barber Lifts the Trumpet

By Peter Laarman

…ars being spent to buy candidates’ souls. Of course, secret pools of money buying Southern elections is a problem. SCOTUS’ Citizens United decision changed the rules of the game, making it easier for big money to play partisan politics. As John Nichols has said in his book, we are more and more a “dollarocracy.” But we remind our progressive friends who are not up on their Southern history: Poor and jobless people of all races have never had money…

Huntsman, the End-of-Empire Conservative

By Sarah Posner

…didates like Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry. What’s more, he seems not to buy the conservative, Gingrich-esque view of American exceptionalism, describing his hawkish critics to Dougherty this way: They clearly haven’t felt our diminished leverage in the international marketplace because of our weak core here at home. They clearly haven’t read the history about the end of empires where you have a diminution in values, you have a society that beco…

Why The Church Can’t Stop Gun Violence

By Daniel Schultz

…more liberal denominations split on gun control, they’re distracted by any number of other issues: hunger, homelessness, anti-racism, advocating for LGBT rights, refugee resettlement, Israel-Palestine and on and on and on. Anybody who’s spent time in a mainline Protestant church knows that it seems like there’s a new cause every damn day. It’s difficult to coalesce around any one issue. As if that weren’t bad enough, the ongoing self-segregation o…

Case Against Church-State Separation From Unlikely Source

By Peter Laarman

…wanting to fight for labor rights and for the dignity of workers today to buy into Daly’s whole libertas ecclesiae shtick. Not only is it not necessary: it is a wildly circuitous and highly dangerous route to take. Are some rights-based liberals unfriendly to unions and union culture? No doubt. Are these liberals as dangerous to unions and union culture as wealth-based conservatives? I don’t think so. Are they as dangerous to unions and union cul…

Christian Morality vs. Free Markets: The Constants of a Conservative

By Eric C. Miller

…e, seems to cast traditionalist commitment in libertarian language. Do you buy that interpretation? That’s an astute point. “Religious liberty” is a perfect example of fusionist rhetoric and fusionist ideology. After Reagan succeeded so dramatically with a fusionist “God and markets” message, there have only been a few non-fusionist conservatives to gain much national traction. Pat Buchanan’s 90s-era culture warriors are one example; although, by…

Never Mind the Libertarians, Here’s the ‘Pragmatist Moment’

By Eric C. Miller

…. Gen-Xers will perhaps appreciate the reference points. But it’s tough to buy Kennedy, now a libertarian and Republican, as a herald of the political future. Even if you haven’t read Jonathan Chait’s devastating critique of the Draper thesis, the Kennedy problem provides a clue to its content. The proposed Libertarian Moment is packaged up with generational confusion, leaving observers unsure of who, exactly, should be carrying the banner. Ed Kil…

What’s Behind a Conservative Mormon’s Call For “Religious Freedom” Advocates to “Stand Down” on LGBT Rights

By Sunnivie Brydum

…g to the Southern Poverty Law Center, an annual gathering that “pursues an international anti-choice, anti-LGBTQ agenda, seeking to promote conservative ideologies—and codify these in regressive laws and policies—that dictate who has rights as ‘family,’ and who doesn’t.” Mero is also an active member (and adult convert) of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and has himself followed Church guidance to organize against LGBT equality—mo…

When I Have Fears The Middle East May Cease To Be

By Haroon Moghul

We used to buy my grandfather the coolest sneakers. Remember Reebok Pumps? He might have been the first man in Islamabad to own them. Mr. Abdul-Bari would stroll into Lal Masjid, Islamabad’s reddish-hued mosque (hence the name), wearing a long cotton tunic and baggy pants, the stereotypical shalwar kamiz. But his feet would represent the best of American youth culture—or at least the consumer consequences of his daughter’s migration West, such th…

Honey Boo Boo and the Sweet By and By

By Carrie Allen Tipton

…South through a variegated interpretive lens; and besides, would consumers buy into this multifaceted vision anyway? Don’t they pay to be fed Othering narratives that package a simplistic version of Dixie for convenient consumption? If ever there were a bullseye target for this kind of elitist and unhelpful framing, it would surely be Southern Gospel music. Emerging from the postbellum South, the music swelled from its roots in amateur shapenote s…

Can Mormonism Save Mitt Romney’s Campaign?

By Joanna Brooks

…nn writes, Romney sees himself as a “rescuer,” “not a guy who used debt to buy and resell businesses.” Hard facts stand on the side of the latter. The insularity, privacy, and opacity of Romney’s worlds and his guardedness are rooted, I believe, in the historic experience of LDS people as a historically persecuted American religious minority that continues to value its separateness from the “world.” To be a Mormon in the late 20th century was to w…