popular culture

The Times is right about the culture wars, it’s just got the wrong location.

Imus’ unsurprising return underscores the lack of a meaningful dialogue on race and gender in America.

Quite a bit, as it turns out. Whether as public figures or educators, academics can, for example, help refute the work of high profile Islamophobes whose expertise lies outside of Islam.

Did the president’s rhetoric at the recent press conference in Turkey signal a shift toward a new national identity, or merely a shift in emphasis?

Last week on Larry King, “America’s Pastor” downplayed his opposition to gay marriage. That was not always the case.

When an inexperienced Pentecostal pastor gets called by God to make a $50 million epic science-fiction film, is he a visionary, a prophet, or just another box office grifter? A new documentary tells the tale.

Pardon me, Nick, but the course you are recommending—and the White House policy you are explicitly endorsing—happens to represent a complete breach of public trust.

Is there a connection between fewer identifying as “Christian” and “junk religion”? If the religious right is losing power why are Democrats so intent on “reaching out” to them?

A new study appears to beg the question: what does it even mean to be Jewish?

Theologian Susan Thistlethwaite suggested in Newsweek that liberals should respect progressive efforts to connect with evangelicals. Frances Kissling responds that the respect should begin with a sitdown between liberals and progressives.