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Police Response in Uvalde Prompts Question: To Serve and Protect Whom?

By John Stoehr

…during which officials justify what police did and why. We’re hearing Thin Blue Line advocates saying it was reasonable to hang back. After all, the scene was dangerous. The suspect had a semiautomatic rifle. This familiar pattern, by which police authorities presume the public is on their side, and won’t question them too much, is fraying as more details emerge as to what the police didn’t do and why they didn’t do it. On the video, you can hear…

The Irony of Moral Panic over Surplus Men

By Patricia Miller

…n, like saleswomen in department stores. There’s no telling whether modern blue-collar men will be rescued by technological innovation or the birth of new industries. But it is refreshing to see conservatives like Douthat admit that lagging family formation among the poor isn’t due to some moral flaw or the temptations of evil liberals like “Murphy Brown,” but structural conditions like the lack of employment. For too long, conservatives have focu…

Steve Jobs, #occupywallst, and Usury

By Jay Michaelson

…d this not as part of the establishment but as countercultural heroes. Big Blue was run by corporate suits—Apple, and the early Microsoft, by long-haired hippies. Steve Jobs invented stuff, and that stuff changed the world. Contrast Jobs with the “Wall Street” being occupied for three weeks now. The symbolic “Wall Street” is not the New York Stock Exchange, but rather the financial industry writ large; the folks who brought us the 2008 financial…

RDBook: Huckabee ♥’s Nobody

By Kyle Mantyla

…om he calls “the silk-stocking crowd,” for looking down their noses at the blue collar “values voters” that Huckabee claims to represent. Two chapters are devoted to holding himself up as the representative of those who shop at Wal-Mart and not Neiman Marcus; of those who eat at The Waffle House rather than Ruth’s Chris Steak House; of those who watch Touched By an Angel and not Desperate Housewives. He expends several pages rehashing old campaign…

“Mad to Be Saved”: On the Road as Cautionary Tale

By Jay Michaelson

…dles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes ‘Awww!’” This passage is the spiritual epicenter of the novel, and it makes an appearance in the film as well, earnestly intoned by Sam Riley (as Kerouac’s alter ego Sal Paradise). In the book, it’s almost an incantation, part of a paean to freedom in newly-postwar America. The country is settling down, and Kerouac’s circle, led by N…

Can Art Save Us From Fundamentalism?

By Philip S. Francis

…g an old baptism photo that had been altered in some way. The Warhol-esque blue-wash was a good call, I think. The white, hand-written font gives a sense that part of the photo has been wiped away. The faces that stare out at us from the photo seem distant and present. I like the expression of the little boy or girl in the bottom right. I like the fact that no one is smiling. Is there a book out there you wish you had written? Which one? Why? The…

Why Faithy Rhetoric Won’t Help Democrats

By Sarah Posner

…essive faith communities, which have “thinner” identity formation than their white evangelical counterparts? Bean has some suggestions, which include reaching deeper into blue collar and Latino communities, as well as some potent criticisms of Democrats’ “wooden” faith outreach. Watch:…

Bailout for Christian Broadcasting?

By Jonathan L. Walton

…ing. Well, according to Religion News Service, some statistics are in. The number of viewers has remained constant, but financial contributions are way down. This reality is leading Christian broadcasters and networks not only to cut back, but also return to tried and true audiences and fundraising techniques. For instance, Trinity Broadcasting Network has been forced to lay off employees while trying to fill empty time slots due to the reduction…

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

By Peter Laarman

…d to protect its staggering profits from any last-minute moves to push for cheaper generic drugs or to extract any cutbacks in Medicare Part D. Thanks to Pharma’s unprecedented clout, federal spending for prescription drugs rocketed from $13 billion/year to $81 billion/year over just the past decade. Democratic Senators daring to push for more concessions from the drug firms are actually getting calls from the Obama White House telling them to STF…

Republican Gomorrah Documents the Christian Right Takeover of the GOP

By Chip Berlet

…Who’s crazy now? Laura Flanders has explored this sad reality in her book Blue Grit, where she bemoans the lack of funding to build a progressive movement infrastructure to counter the well-funded social movements of the political right that yanked the Republican Party to starboard. Blumenthal stumbles into the centrist-extremist trap, and all too often his rhetoric stoops to the type of acerbic demonization prompted by the liberal reliance on ou…