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Is The Religious Left Emerging as a Political Force? No.

By Daniel Schultz

…s would only just stand up for working-class white men and forget all this business about being the party of defending women’s right to control their own bodies and racial minorities not to be second-class citizens, they could draw a lot of support from Republican-leaning voters. A lot. Except, no, not even that daffy logic works. Here’s why, in two charts: You might be able to make an argument that part of the “change” voters said they wanted to…

The Latest Attempts to Get ‘In God We Trust’ Into Schools is a Coordinated Christian Nationalist Push [Part 3]

By Andrew L. Seidel

…cordingly. Project Blitz’s goal is to favor Christians, creating a special class, while relegating everyone else to, at best, second-class status. Emblazoning In God We Trust in public schools furthers that goal. The new laws in most of these states mirror the model bill in the Project Blitz handbook. The laws are not so much a camel’s nose under the tent, as they are tethering the camel inside the tent and expecting other people’s children to wor…

What’s Rome Got to Do With It?: Bannon, Burke, and Douthat’s “Trumpian” Pope

By Patricia Miller

…ment a radical Marxist, pro-Islam agenda on the backs of the white working class of Europe. It’s the second of two articles detailing Bannon’s courtship of the Vatican as an ally in the fight to “buoy Europe’s surging anti-immigrant parties” and make common cause with social traditionalists. (Which, in a delicious irony, reveals that Breitbarts’ “man in Rome” is a former priest who had an illegitimate child with the daughter of former U.S. Vatican…

What We Need to Understand is that Fascism is Intersectional and Erotic—’Thy Rod is Thy Gun,’ With a Hip-Thrust

By Annika Brockschmidt

…er to understand the broadness of American fascism? Is it Whiteness? Is it class? Is it gender? Misogyny? Is it the exhaustion of the pandemic? Is it screens? Is it climate grief? Yes, absolutely. The common denominator is grief, unprocessed loss—whether it’s the loss of privilege attendant to Whiteness, whether it’s real economic loss (which is there), or whether it’s the loss of a belief in the future. Whether, like Ashli Babbitt, it’s the crush…

Publisher Withdraws History of Hinduism, Amid Protest

By Laurie Patton

…which criminalized “the deliberate act intended to outrage feelings of any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs.” And Section 295A was indeed subsequently enacted by the British because of the escalation of communal violence involving Muslims, Hindus, and other religious groups. As Shoaib Daniyal writes, Even at the time though, there was unease over the implications of the bill. Muhammad Ali Jinnah, who was a member of the committ…

Country Trumpkins

By Daniel Schultz

…hey work hard and don’t always get a lot in return. Like the urban working-class people I ministered to in Pennsylvania, there are many residents of small towns and rural areas who feel left behind, alienated from and screwed over by the financialized economy that sees them only as assets and liabilities. They are afraid of what will come next for themselves and their communities, constrained by memories of what used to be, and frustrated by their…

Obama Criticizes Black Fatherhood

By Jonathan L. Walton

…g practices commonly attributed to the black poor serves to bolster middle class privilege by distancing the black church from the perceived deviant mores of “ghetto” society. The black church is thus able to obscure its own gross patriarchy and self-indulgent tendencies that are as American as Wall Street greed. On the personal level, by saying “Amen” to such accusatory and self-righteous rhetoric, individuals are able to reaffirm their own sense…

Dieting, Sex, Jesus: The Body as Moral Battleground

By Lynne Gerber

…others. I wasn’t able to include much on fatness, weight loss, and social class—an issue that interests me a great deal and that I’ve written about elsewhere. What’s the biggest misconception about your topic? There are so many. I think in terms of weight loss, it’s that fatness is self-evidently bad, that fatness on bodies has moral meaning, and that dieting and weight loss is quotidian and harmless at worst, and a moral mandate at best. The dis…

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

By Eric Reitan

…ation in America. Santorum’s anti-intellectual populism, aimed at working class Americans “who go out and work hard every day… [but aren’t] taught by some liberal college professor [who is] trying to indoctrinate them,” isn’t a new development. In fact, he’s used this exact language before, as when he questioned federal support for colleges and universities on the grounds that they are “indoctrination centers of the left.” Not unlike much of what…

Intelligent Design Trial Celebrates Fifth Year Reunion

By Lauri Lebo

…es struck down the teaching of intelligent design in public school science class as unconstitutional, writing that it was merely revamped creationism posing as a scientific theory. For many of us who were involved in the trial (I was a reporter at the local newspaper at the time who covered it), it was a life-changing experience. As I’ve said many many times, Kitzmiller v. Dover was this bright shiny moment at a very unsettling time in our nation’…