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Dispatches from the Election: John McCain, Great White Nope

By Glenn W. Smith

…discussed. We’d rather not. The press uses euphemisms like “white, working-class Americans” to refer to those they know might vote against Obama because he’s black. It’s not because he’s not working class enough. It’s because he’s not white enough. It’s also the case that Obama’s campaign has much to gain by trying to transcend old racial boundaries and knee-jerk antagonisms. He shouldn’t have to go back there (though his speech on race last sprin…

Anti-Gay Evangelicalism is the Norm: A Less Rosy Take on the Evangelical “Tipping Point”

By Chrissy Stroop

…lly have a speaker who, Campolo-like, would attack the hypocrisy of middle-class and affluent Christians being insufficiently concerned with the human realities of poverty, but this never for a minute threatened our general understanding that when we became old enough to vote we were morally compelled to be “values voters.” And ours was not the most hardline Christian school in Indianapolis. While Heritage encouraged students to get involved with…

The Grand Old Homonationalist Party: The Issue that Keeps the Log Cabin Republicans, Republican

By Omar Sarwar

…ir lives. Research by the FBI demonstrates that between 2005 and 2014 LGBT Americans surpassed American Jews as the most likely target of hate crimes in the country, not despite, but because of rising cultural acceptance of same-sex-loving persons. And according to the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP), reported homicides against queer people have risen sharply since 2007, disproportionately harming transgender women and LGBT pe…

Trump’s Rise: What’s a Christian Progressive to Do?

By Jonathan Orbell

…t a certain level of pathology is at work among white, working- and middle-class Americans. There is a spiking mortality rate in this population, attributed not to the usual culprits like heart disease or diabetes, but to “an epidemic of suicides and afflictions stemming from substance abuse: alcoholic liver disease and overdoses of heroin and prescription opioids.” I would like to suggest that it is no coincidence that Trump’s rise and an uptick…

Just Give ‘Em a Little Jesus: Black Marriage Meets White Paternalism

By Sikivu Hutchinson

…the most prominent providers of social welfare in working-class and middle-class African-American communities. Given these disparities, some churches may in fact provide a path out of recidivism because they are literally the only accessible avenue for cultural and communal connection in neighborhoods devastated by economic depression. But to suggest that recidivism is the most salient measure of black male “flourishing” ignores the insidious harm…

Santorum’s War on Satan… er, on Higher Education

By Eric Reitan

…with the facts is flimsy. Santorum speaks as though Obama were pushing all Americans toward a four-year liberal arts education. But as a recent Inside Higher Ed article points out: [M]ost of the Obama push for expanded higher education has been about community colleges and job-training programs. He has spoken far more about the need to give working class people tools to advance their careers (through certificate and associate degree programs) than…

Intelligent Design Trial Celebrates Fifth Year Reunion

By Lauri Lebo

…least one particular view of the Christian faith) in public school science class by suggesting to students, in contravention of well accepted scientific concepts, that evolution is unfounded or at least questionable as a matter of science, and that students should consider as an alternative scientific explanation the concept that life and living things were created by a supernatural “intelligent designer” that everyone knows to be a reference to G…

Did the “Real America” Elect Trump?

By Paul Harvey

…a culture, have to stop infantilizing and deifying rural and white working-class Americans. Their experience is not more of a real American experience than anyone else’s, but when we say that it is, we give people a pass from seeing and understanding more of their country. We must all understand that America is a melting pot and that none of us has a more authentic American experience. I’m all for soul-searching in the wake of the coalition of eva…

Israeli Jesus: More Popular Than Ever

By Shalom Goldman

…f the state; though many of them feel that their citizenship is not “first class” but rather “second or third class.” Among “Israeli Arabs” (itself a contested and contentious term), there is a high degree of identification with the Palestinian Arabs of The West Bank and Gaza. Recent Arab-Jewish riots in the coastal city of Acco (Acre) have exacerbated Arab-Jewish tensions within the country as a whole. For these reasons, officials were relieved w…

King and Obama—Don’t Get it Twisted

By William D. Hart

…el Harrington saw. He speaks only of the middle class. I call this “middle class astigmatism,” which distorts the moral vision and certainly the rhetoric of American politicians. The King-Obama symbolism and symmetry can only take us so far. We can only hope and pray that Obama’s administration will be better than the evidence suggests. Let me take that back: rather than hoping and praying—or in addition to doing so—we should act like citizens by…