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Eat, Pray, Trash: What the Critics Don’t See

By Ben Brazil

…o happiness. Roy calls Gilbert “honest, edifying, and moving,” and admits that “[w]e all need that sabbatical from the rut of our lives.” He simply wonders where Indians and Indonesians get to go when they’ve lost their “spark.” Similarly, the writers who condemn Gilbert’s priv-lit do so not because her path to wholeness is always and utterly wrong (though they strongly indict self-help literature generally), but because they think she directs all…

Obama Inaugural Address Challenges Tea Party History

By Julie Ingersoll

…enged the tea partiers’ claim to represent the “real America” (suggesting that the rest of us are not). The old narrative has us “fighting for freedom” around the world, and the stirring version of The Battle Hymn of the Republic included “as he died to make men holy let us die to make men free,” when the more common version these days calls on us to “live to make men free.” Yet even with regard to the way military force has been central to what…

White Nationalist Ideology Shines Through at Elite MAGA Conference: Inside NatCon Part II

By Ben Lorber

…to subordinate the state to an institutional church. I don’t.” All agree that, whatever the flavor, some kind of broad-based Judeo-Christian restoration is the last possible bulwark against rampant secularism and civilizational collapse. “The only thing that is strong enough to stop the religion of woke neo-Marxism,” declares Hazony in his speech, “is the religion of Biblical Christianity. That’s the only thing.” Other speakers strike a triumphal…

Does God Hate Health Care? How About Public Schools? Or Bridges?

By Joanna Brooks

…ited theological rationale for Mormon anti-state conservatism is the idea that these programs mitigate freedom of choice. Mormon theology holds that the purpose of human existence is the free exercise of human agency—the ability to choose—so that men and women can learn by experience and prepare themselves to share in the glory of God. Of course, this emphasis on agency never hindered the nineteenth-century Mormon practices of economic communitari…

Why Scientists Should Be Agnostic: Or, Why Lawrence Krauss Is Still a Windbag

By Andrew Aghapour and Michael Schulson

…chnoscientific Jetsons-esque harmony. We agree with Krauss when he argues that “science holds that no idea is sacred,” (though we must acknowledge that science is a human endeavor, so it seldom lives up to its highest ideals). Scientific inquiry shouldn’t privilege any particular system of ideals or values. No fact is safe, no theory transcendent. But Krauss breaks this very rule by making Science itself sacred. “Science,” with a capital S, is a m…