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Welcome to the (New) Gilded Age: Supreme Court Delivers the Goods to Corporations

By Peter Laarman

…ountry. —Thomas Jefferson, letter to George Logan, 1816 Of last week’s two domestic temblors—the Massachusetts vote on Tuesday and the Supreme Court’s ruling on Thursday—the second is the one that should really be giving us night sweats. The Court’s Unfab Five (Roberts, Alito, Scalia, Thomas, and Kennedy) landed a devastating blow to the body politic and to the entire concept of popular sovereignty. I told a friend that as a practical matter, we m…

How Conservative Christian Women Came to Claim “True” Feminism

By Eric C. Miller

…cal ties at work, I wanted to better understand the dynamics causing large numbers of people to adopt the interests of CWA and other Christian Right groups even when those ideas don’t necessarily have clear factual backing. I felt that a thoroughgoing treatment of how public persuasion and belief formation happens had been mostly ignored in scholarship, as most scholars simply see finite groups with finite beliefs, rather than asking critical ques…

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

By Carolyn Gallaher and Priya Dixit

…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, 2022). Cooter argues that militias’ opposition to the federal government does not carry over to their views of sta…

Single Greatest Idea Ever: On the 150th Anniversary of Darwin’s Origin of Species

By Lauri Lebo

…ited for human consumption: Let us now briefly consider the steps by which domestic races have been produced, either from one or from several allied species. Some effect may be attributed to the direct and definite action of the external conditions of life, and some to habit; but he would be a bold man who would account by such agencies for the differences between a dray- and race-horse, a greyhound and bloodhound, a carrier and tumbler pigeon. On…

Women as Head Pastors Was Final Straw for Southern Baptist Convention — Not Scandal, Sexual Abuse, or Dalliance with Dictators

By Caroline Matas

…ongregation—California’s Saddleback Church, a sprawling megachurch with 14 domestic and 4 international campuses that had been helmed by celebrity pastor Rick Warren from 1980 until 2021. Saddleback ordained three women as pastors in May of 2021, a decision that Southern Baptist Theological Seminary president Albert Mohler decried as “unwise and confusing” and that ultimately spurred an investigation by the Convention’s Credentials Committee. Warr…

Vivek Ramaswamy Represents the Convergence of White Supremacy and Hindu Supremacy — And He May Well Be Trump’s Running Mate

By Usha Kumar

…a around affirmative action policies and “wokeness,” their relationship to domestic politics transformed too. Many Modi Democrats have been waiting for a figure like Vivek Ramaswamy to provide a new container for their political beliefs. Ramaswamy, like Trump—and indeed most successful far-right populists today—is known for making a range of bellicose, contradictory and media-baiting statements. But Ramaswamy has retained a modicum of consistency…

New Patriarch, Same Patriarchy: Despite Glowing Praise For New SBC President, There’s Just One Problem

By Caroline Matas

…one to seek a divorce and that’s always wrong counsel,” even in matters of domestic abuse. Patterson told his audience that he advises women experiencing spousal abuse to “be submissive in every way that you can” while praying for their husband’s change of heart. Following the leaked audio, Southern Baptist leaders spoke out in favor of women’s right to “separate” from abusive husbands, but the SBC’s most recent resolution continues to identify di…

Resisting the “New Normal” of Parasitic Capitalism in the Two Americas: The Religious Imperative

By Peter Laarman

…al economy, including community reinvestment and investment in good-paying domestic jobs: In practical terms, this means saying very clearly that the itty-bitty stimulus program we’ve had so far is not nearly enough—especially when this administration has apparently limitless amounts to spend on propping up zombie banks and fighting imperial wars in the Middle East. Legitimize the doubts and demands among the sheep being led to slaughter today: Th…

Virginia Mollenkott: Warrior in the Battle for Evangelical Acceptance of Gays (1932-2020)

By Anne Linstatter

…s book met widespread opposition among evangelicals. “We’ll never know the number of LGBTQ Christian lives saved by this groundbreaking book,” comments Christian Feminism Today on its website. An earlier book, Women, Men, and the Bible, attracted widespread attention in 1977, giving hope to women raised in conservative denominations that required women’s submission to men. Mollenkott spoke at two of the first conferences of evangelical feminists:…

A Campaign About Values Voters, or Justice?

By Sarah Posner

…should not cut humanitarian and poverty-focused foreign assistance or U.S. domestic poverty programs. The faithful way forward to fiscal health calls for a focus on job creation, revenue increases, reducing unnecessary military spending and a shared commitment to the common good. As I wrote back in April, while faithy leaders who have the ear of the White House were fasting for a “moral” budget, although Democrats do need to fight to maintain such…