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High above the nine living justices of the Supreme Court, carved atop the marble columns of the highest courtroom in the land, sits the prophet Muhammad. He’s not alone, obviously. Flanking him are…

Last Tuesday, just days before Idaho became one of a handful states to see a record high in new COVID-19 cases, 15 Republican members of the Idaho House of Representatives went rogue, gathering in the…

Education has long been a front in the U.S. culture wars.

In this post-marriage equality moment, the Christian Right is increasingly turning its attention toward the anti-LGBTQ battles it feels more confident about winning, specifically focusing on transgender communities.

Please feel free to ignore the economists and pundits who like to say that Wall Street is not the ‘real’ economy. That old saw is false in at least two ways. Members of the investor class wouldn’t…

In our recent book on environmental ethics , Kevin O’Brien and I deal quite a bit with the concept of time. We argue there, and I argue here still, that the chronological, anthropocentric (or human…

In a blog post for The Gospel Coalition, Kevin DeYoung calls for conservative Christians to “have more children and disciple them like crazy,” a new culture war strategy that has me scratching my head…

In her excellent book Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny , the philosopher Kate Manne coined the term Himpathy , which she defined as “the excessive sympathy sometimes shown toward male perpetrators of…

Three years ago, as a part of its mission to teach Transcendental Meditation to a million at-risk kids , the David Lynch Foundation partnered with the University of Chicago’s Urban Labs and Chicago…

Even as ALEC, the infamous bill-mill that produces right-wing model legislation for state lawmakers, hemorrhages corporate members and is discredited as a neutral voice in politics, other groups are adopting its tactics.