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Honey Boo Boo and the Sweet By and By

By Carrie Allen Tipton

…ing high in the ratings game these days with Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, the latest offering to confirm mainstream media’s deep investment in portraying a one-dimensional and abject South. The old weary stereotypes slide down smoothly, like the creamy underlayer of a hashbrown casserole. It takes too much work to refract the South through a variegated interpretive lens; and besides, would consumers buy into this multifaceted vision anyway? Don’t the…

What Will Orthodox ‘Republicanity’ Look Like?

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…s a fight about numbers. And balance. And the virtue of justice. What this latest budget battle, and the question of raising the debt ceiling, and the straw polls are revealing, is just how Tertullian a wing of the Republican Party has become. It not only offers absurd arguments with a straight face, but actually insists that belief in the absurdity of the nation’s fundamental fiscal health is a central tenet of the true faith: patriotism. To expr…

The White Nationalist Fringe Just Took a Giant Step Closer to the Center of the GOP

By Annika Brockschmidt

…OP due to his strong following in the midwest, it was King’s full-throated promotion of white supremacy and white nationalism as a virtue that finally proved too much even for the GOP. And so, in 2019, Republicans unanimously voted to remove him from his committee assignments (though he wasn’t removed from the “G.O.P. House conference itself, so he [could] still attend its party meetings”). Since then, the GOP has been radicalized even further, an…

Caprica’s Advertising and Teen Religion

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

My competent colleagues have collectively conspired to bring us the latest news from Caprica on an ongoing basis. So I’ll leave the Capricologizing to them. But I wanted to note a couple things surrounding the show that I think fills out some of the interest in its relation to religion: its advertising and the reception of the show as a potentially religious event in itself. The SyFy channel obviously paid a hefty sum to the New York Times and ot…

Jeff Flake’s (Mormon-Influenced) Anti-Trump Speeches: Prophetic or Performance?

By Grant Shreve

…ch merely skimmed the surface of his Mormon heritage, the value of Flake’s latest was that it recovered and entered into the public record some of Mormonism’s key epistemological assumptions and set them in relation to the nation’s founding documents. The question remains, however, whether this address is more style than substance. Does it reflect Flake’s genuine commitment to upholding and outing truth, or will it prove wholly performative? As Fl…