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September 2019

September 30, 2019

The heirs of the abstractions

Anthea Butler's NBC News op-ed -- "White evangelicals love Trump and aren't confused about why....

September 26, 2019

‘I wouldn’t buy any green bananas’

The Trump administration is further slashing America's hospitality to refugees -- and thereby destroying refugee...

September 25, 2019

Postcards from the class & culture wars (9.25.19)

"Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the...

September 23, 2019

Smart people saying smart things (9.23.19)

You'd be smart to listen to Kate Marvel, Zak Cheney-Rice, Damon Young, Michael Twitty, and...

September 16, 2019

‘Just put it on my bill’

The sexual "purity culture" embraced by white evangelicals can't be separated from the sex-obsessed, all-American...

August 2019

August 21, 2019

‘They love him like he is the second coming of God’

Distancing yourself from this statement, apologizing to those disrespected, and making it clear that you...

August 15, 2019

Culotte fundamentalism

Culottes! They're not just the spork of the sartorial world, they're also a very telling signifier...

August 12, 2019

When the racist chants are cool, but the cussing concerns you

Taking the Lord's name in vain isn't about what you say when you stub your...

August 07, 2019

Piece of string? I’m a frayed knot

• This is what we evangelical Christian types call a "personal testimony." And it's a...

July 2019

July 31, 2019

Postcards from the class & culture wars (7.31.19)

"Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore, love is the fulfilling of the law."

July 23, 2019

‘We’ve come to cash a check’

"We’ve come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the...

July 19, 2019

Smart people saying smart things (7.19.19)

Read the smart things Andrea Pitzer, David Dayen, Carlos Maza, Lili Loofbourow, and Adam Serwer...

July 17, 2019

Yeah, well at $19 a beer I’m not surprised

A Border Patrol badge is now as meaningless to everyone else as it is to...

July 16, 2019

On Republican outreach to black voters and the utter lack thereof

The point here isn't that Republicans are a bunch of racists, but that they're showing...

July 10, 2019

‘So heavenly minded you’re no earthly good’

More evidence that if you want to know God -- if you want to be...

July 09, 2019

‘In retrospect, this was a bad idea’

Jeffrey Epstein's arrest; a couple of bad places to work; more Christian white nationalism; and...

June 2019

June 24, 2019

Let’s put our heads together and start a new country up

When the rivers are on fire, it's time to start imagining a better way of...

June 18, 2019

The gas is gone and now we’re fumin’

Chris Ladd revisits the Southern Strategy and the bottom-up role of white pastors in turning...

June 18, 2019

Postcards from the class & culture wars (6.18.19)

"Everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does...

May 2019

May 09, 2019

Sister, won’t you tell me where I went so wrong

An evil, unjust new law in Georgia means that police are now charged with interrogating...

May 07, 2019

All this work it just ain’t working

Whenever you hear someone talking about the "Jezebel Spirit," you're either dealing with a con-artist...

May 02, 2019

Thomas of Monmouth: The hugely influential Christian writer you’ve never heard of

It's a story that has been told and retold for centuries. This story has shaped...

May 01, 2019

Niebuhr (and Baldwin) on the whiteness of white evangelicalism

"Why is it that we see no evidence of the 'color-blindness' when these people leave...

April 2019

April 24, 2019

No one is innocently ‘fooled’ by blackface trolls

Hudson is correct that "no one who knew or liked a black feminist" was fooled...

April 24, 2019

Standin’ on the corner, I didn’t mean no harm

Today's guests include: Rudyard Kipling, Neil Gaiman, John Lee Bishop, Fred Phelps, Meghan O'Gieblyn, Lil...

April 18, 2019

It’s never wrong to hop a fence

American-style health insurance requires from all of us many hours of tedious, burdensome, unpaid homework....

April 16, 2019

We need to do something about Rick Wiles

Rick Wiles may be a "fringe" figure, but he has a large audience of "mainstream"...

April 11, 2019

Youth culture killed my dog

Once upon a time there was a thing in America called the "Christian Party," which...

April 10, 2019

A First Amendment for me, but not for thee

Here's the story of a First Amendment dispute involving free speech that illuminates parallel First...

April 09, 2019

Postcards from the class & culture wars (4.9.19)

"Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore, love is the fulfilling of the law."