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Why Don’t White People Show Up For Juneteenth The Way They Showed Up For George Floyd?

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…is that White people do not attend Juneteenth festivals in any appreciable numbers. This month I attended two Juneteenth festivals in the Columbia, South Carolina metropolitan area and the results were the same: minimum White attendance. Both events were free to the public, with ideal weather and plenty of good food and entertainment. Whereas a cross-section of Black America was in attendance, Whites stuck out like rice in chocolate pudding. But t…

Election Day: Hope, Heartbreak, Naiveté, and Studs Terkel

By The Editors

…without bias or hypocrisy? As flawed as our political system is in so many ways, we took one more step toward that today. Mary E. Hunt: Double Duty A Washington, DC, police officer inspired me anew for the election. She told me that when she votes she always asks for two “I have voted” stickers as she leaves the polling place. In her house, she was told that there are two things were of utmost importance: education and voting. These must be powe…

Sometimes Dialogue is Not the Answer and Neutrality is a Trap: An Interview with the Authors of ‘The Neutrality Trap’

By Chrissy Stroop

…ve worked with, and from the public conflicts of our times—is an essential way of making that connection. Jackie: Additionally, we both believe that self-reflection is crucial in advancing social and institutional change. Sharing our stories was a way of recounting our experiences and also learning from our past experiences and about how we’ve been transformed by them. Since we’re all part of a system, our individual transformation has the potenti…

Does Atheism Have a Misogyny Problem?

By Julia Galef

…of their fellow atheists. Those of us in attendance dealt with it the best way we knew how—by joking about it. When that got old, we resorted to jokes about how bad our jokes were. Underneath the layers of meta-humor, however, it was clear that the heated argument had taken a toll on the atheist and skeptic community. But the internet explosion wasn’t without its benefits. If you had managed to elbow your way through the melee without getting spla…

What the Critics of the Mindfulness Trend Don’t Get

By Hollis Phelps

…he world to some sort of inner sanctum. Rather, they allow us to grasp the way that ideologies function to organize our lives in a particular ways, ultimately cutting through them to offer a glimpse of something different. Meditative practices, in this sense, don’t offer us an escape, a way out, but an opportunity to engage the world more critically and radically—which is a precondition for politics. Seen this way, mindfulness and meditation are t…

Heaven On Earth: A Non-Hysterical History of Shari’ah

By Haroon Moghul

…ple that they should strain to avoid mandatory punishments (haddood) and always credit defendants with the benefit of legal doubt (shubha). There are also specifically Muslim institutions that seem to have made their way into European legal systems; most notably, a reviewing court known as the nazr al-mazalim, which the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II used as a model for a new (but very durable) system of administrative courts on the Continent. Ot…

By the Way: McNamara, Dead at 93, Lived Long and Rueful Life

By Randall Balmer

…ollowing his visit to South Vietnam in 1962. Two years later, when Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon referred to Vietnam as “McNamara’s War,” the secretary of defense shot back: “I am pleased to be identified with it and do whatever I can to win it.” McNamara, to his credit, began to have doubts by 1966, telling Johnson a year later that it was time to cut our losses and leave. Johnson dismissed him. After a stint as head of the World Bank, McNamara p…

Why Liberal Religious Arguments Fail

By Peter Laarman

…ld at least try to temper the bad habit of imagining they can reason their way, debate their way, to greater power and reach. That’s mostly a fool’s errand. And we should maybe also take a lesson from our own formative stories. For the vast majority of Americans there’s the example of the ultimate non-debater and storyteller… That guy. They said that he spoke “not as the scribes, but as one having authority.” What does it mean? I like to think i…

Grace Under Pressure: Reclaiming Hope for Progressive Religion

By Daniel Schultz

…l promises of equality; it called on American citizens to enter into a new way of relating to one another. It did so with a constant impatience with the way things were—a relentless, increasingly radical unwillingness to accept the status quo that would quite disturb Obama the bipartisan peacemaker. Obama’s vision of hope is also rooted in an evangelical understanding of human effort, a framework he may have inherited from Jeremiah Wright. Unfortu…

The Way We Never Were: Calling Out Evangelicals For Hypocrisy Misses the Point

By Hollis Phelps

…standing” with the broader culture. Such “moral standing,” however, has always been more of a political self-designation, designed to implement conservative, often racist and/or discriminatory, policies under the guise of religious convictions. Although abortion and, now, LGBTQ rights serve as its contemporary calling card, the religious right in the United States, as some have argued, has its origins in racial segregation, particularly the estab…