https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to david brooks en https://religiondispatches.org/2022/02/10/missing-element-conversation-christian-nationalism-and-freedom-whiteness A new report released Wednesday by a trio of groups, both Christian and secular, on the role played by white Christian nationalists in the January 6 storming of the Capitol will open some eyes, and that’s all to the good… Thu, 10 Feb 2022 01:34:42 EST Peter Laarman 2c38c293-8aae-4588-aa81-826c59e2a925 https://religiondispatches.org/2021/04/22/chauvin-verdict-isnt-turning-point-equal-justice-it-does-suggest-new-political-norm There was a little “post-racial America” in the air Tuesday after a jury found former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin guilty in the murder of George Floyd. It felt similar to the night Barack Obama was elected. If a Black… Thu, 22 Apr 2021 03:49:13 EDT John Stoehr 5693992c-db5a-4e54-b2f4-3bc47a7c09c8 https://religiondispatches.org/2019/05/15/pastor-david-brooks-your-sermons-are-growing-stale The ‘trustees of the First Church of American Religion’ express concern over the approach of Times columnist David Brooks: You place religious practice and affiliation in the category of palliative resources for those being crushed by the new ruthless economy, whereas the religion usually referred to as prophetic—a form of religion we still regard as indispensable—sees faith as much more than a kind of backstop for those who suffer. Wed, 15 May 2019 03:59:02 EDT Peter Laarman a3f89545-4395-4b47-88a4-224c21e555f4 https://religiondispatches.org/2019/01/29/decline-religion-decline-generosity Sure, religious households give more money away than unaffiliated households. But do they ever question why poverty and hunger and homelessness continue to soar in this supposedly “rich” country? Tue, 29 Jan 2019 01:54:50 EST Peter Laarman 2da2c086-4166-4bc5-a157-1909f81b1414 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/08/09/how-america-really-lost-its-mind-hint-it-wasnt-entirely-fault-hippie-new-agers-and “Conservative Christians had long rejected aspects of expert knowledge, official science, reason, and their organs of circulation. They had been trained in a fundamentalist hermeneutics of suspicion.” Wed, 09 Aug 2017 07:27:08 EDT Christopher Douglas 8b5dc5eb-d2fa-468e-95c2-0019e623484a https://religiondispatches.org/2017/05/09/irony-repeats-itself-reconsidering-reinhold-niebuhr-trump-era For the third time in this young century, Reinhold Niebuhr is getting another splash of attention. It happened last in 2008, when presidential candidate Barack Obama said that Niebuhr had deeply influenced him. It happened before that in 2003, when… Tue, 09 May 2017 03:23:27 EDT Gary Dorrien 8a280f61-ba1c-4b18-81b7-f177ac7211aa https://religiondispatches.org/2017/03/21/storytime-david-brooks-which-liberals-favorite-conservative-gets-lost-lily-white-history Personal research conducted among my lefty friends shows that for many liberals, reading David Brooks amounts to a kind of a guilty pleasure. Brooks is witty, urbane, occasionally brilliant, and he has been nothing but resolute against Trump and Trumpism… Tue, 21 Mar 2017 12:58:31 EDT Peter Laarman 25365634-6e68-4bed-bce5-aaf10eb8620c https://religiondispatches.org/2016/03/18/fact-checking-scripture-brooks-contra-trump I’ve been a fan of Psalm 73 ever since I read Martin Buber’s interpretation of it almost twenty-five years ago. So it was a pleasant surprise to find it cited in David Brooks’ latest, and to date most strident column… Fri, 18 Mar 2016 09:59:42 EDT Daniel Schultz 36dc0249-63c7-408b-a4dc-a95a3a7859a2 https://religiondispatches.org/2016/01/12/cruz-induced-angst-and-christian-virtue Poor David Brooks. He wants to write about what ails the evangelical affection for Ted Cruz and what he sees as a tenuous relationship with Christian virtue, but he seems to misapprehend that compassionate conservatism is so 2000. In today’s… Tue, 12 Jan 2016 03:58:31 EST Sarah Posner e783c787-105d-4433-bb04-40b1d4cd5fd7 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/09/29/springtime-ross-douthat Ross Douthat’s latest column offers proof of Godwin’s law in the headline—and goes downhill from there. And the headline (a sly reference to The Producers’ “Springtime for Hitler”) isn’t even the worst thing in the article. To be fair, journalists… Tue, 29 Sep 2015 11:58:16 EDT Daniel Schultz 9fcf6426-c7f6-45df-92dd-ff498868ba08 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/07/20/profanity-laden-sermon-white-people-who-want-talk-about-race Encountering the grief of racism in a non-David-Brooks-ian way. Mon, 20 Jul 2015 09:00:05 EDT Daniel Schultz 89af4ef3-450b-4886-af34-a548671dbb58 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/06/23/memo-david-brooks-francis-not-naive-criticizing-capitalism I had to read Brooks’ column on Laudato si a couple of times to realize fully what a risk-taker he is to put this stuff out there, apodictically as it were, without pausing to consider whether Francis might have very… Tue, 23 Jun 2015 03:35:01 EDT Peter Laarman 8dea032a-dbdd-499e-88a8-322fca6d7546 https://religiondispatches.org/2015/02/04/david-brooks-rant-emptiness-secularism-poppycock New York Times columnist David Brooks is way behind the curve when it comes to post-theistic ethics and religion. In yesterday’s column, ” Building Better Secularists,” what he actually builds is a caricature of “secularists” which he then proceeds to… Wed, 04 Feb 2015 01:45:18 EST Daniel C. Maguire 3b7da043-4555-4796-b465-b2d275312445 https://religiondispatches.org/2013/12/12/egypt-and-problem-religion Which side in Egypt is currently on the side of the angels and which not? One likes to assume that in any, particularly political, conflict the good guys can be easily separated from the bad guys; ordinarily the former is assumed to play by the rules of the game… Thu, 12 Dec 2013 05:57:23 EST Asma Afsaruddin 5a8fcdd2-31e2-4730-9ce6-885bede28f08 https://religiondispatches.org/2013/07/28/my-god-david-brooks One senses that in Brooks’ reading of Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age the principle of choice becomes its own form of transcendence. Sun, 28 Jul 2013 05:50:35 EDT John Modern f9f69673-272a-4631-9837-33d9b7597862 https://religiondispatches.org/2013/07/08/humanities-make-life-bearable Walt Whitman counseled each of us to “dismiss whatever insults your soul.” My fervent hope is that the new Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences report—a project of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences that was “commissioned” or “requested” by a quartet of DC pols—will be dismissed accordingly. Mon, 08 Jul 2013 01:55:53 EDT Peter Laarman d43ad9b2-c881-4e42-923c-e3d746788a2f https://religiondispatches.org/2012/12/20/everything-was-better-when-we-had-god-our-schools Wasn’t it? Thu, 20 Dec 2012 02:39:45 EST Hollis Phelps 8d9a1cb8-2c32-4a3c-93e3-1fc57fba3158 https://religiondispatches.org/2012/09/19/romney-behind-closed-doors Where is the love? Wed, 19 Sep 2012 02:12:47 EDT Joanna Brooks 83886050-b710-4d55-ab83-f9f5e648afd0 https://religiondispatches.org/2012/04/05/rejecting-blood-sacrifice-theology-again What I started out writing, churlishly and petulantly, is that I could only surmise that the market for books like this consists mainly of somewhat innocent readers; of people who whose only previous conception of Christ’s atoning work is of the standard, unreconstructed, washed-in-the-blood variety. For them, discovering what Jones is writing about would come as manna in the wilderness, and in that regard Jones has performed a mitzvah by publishing this book. Thu, 05 Apr 2012 09:01:06 EDT Peter Laarman da2358bd-714d-46b4-aaf3-675807bc9361 https://religiondispatches.org/2011/09/19/case-against-church-state-separation-unlikely-source A new essay in an influential journal illuminates little-known intersections between Catholic thought and US social history. But then it goes on to prescribe an odd fix for US labor woes: razing the wall between church and state. Mon, 19 Sep 2011 03:16:25 EDT Peter Laarman e73d8f27-69bb-470c-a3b9-91528e78cb9b https://religiondispatches.org/2011/07/05/rick-perrys-kingmaker-and-david-brooks-wakes Welcome back from vacation. Tue, 05 Jul 2011 07:45:19 EDT Sarah Posner 024f36a4-3d56-4c3b-b741-d19e9a24c9e9 https://religiondispatches.org/2011/04/29/social-science-animal-brooks-argues-emotion-over-reason Borrowing generously from old school humanists like Rousseau, and deploying scientific data, Brooks’ new book argues for a more heartfelt humanism. Aren’t there more interesting lessons on human life that we might cull from scientific research? Fri, 29 Apr 2011 08:26:41 EDT Beatrice Marovich 29e42f5a-76df-4c27-b6e0-ab00ec98333c https://religiondispatches.org/2011/04/22/why-david-brooks-wrong-about-book-mormon-musical It’s not creedalism that makes religion powerful; it’s the hunger to belong. Fri, 22 Apr 2011 05:26:28 EDT Joanna Brooks 475c3ce7-f0f7-400b-be12-d2a179fdecf5 https://religiondispatches.org/2011/03/31/most-embarrassing-losers-ever Pundits think the Tea Party has pushed the GOP to the extremes, but it was already there. Thu, 31 Mar 2011 04:15:31 EDT Sarah Posner 31eaca58-557e-41c6-bf70-b607ac7b726e https://religiondispatches.org/2010/10/26/pox-americana-franzens-tragic-vision There is nothing small-bore or contemptible about a novel that explores the wonder and heartbreak of romantic love against the distant thunder of imperial warfare. Tue, 26 Oct 2010 08:40:37 EDT Peter Laarman cc1fb3ee-b4a9-415a-b37f-8ab21ed45c54