In recent years, country songwriters have seemed to be virtually required to produce jingoistic populist anthems. But the association of country and the political right is only a recent invention.
22-year-old Trevor Case has been sitting in a Nebraska jail since late last month for allegedly waterboarding his girlfriend. According to police reports, after accusing Danielle Stallworth of…
Aaron W. Hughes is a professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Rochester. He is the author of Rethinking Jewish Philosophy: Beyond Particularism and Universalism (Oxford, 2014).
A frequent commentator on religion in American public life, Jacob Lupfer is a contributing editor at Religion News Service. He is a Ph.D. candidate in political science at Georgetown.
American indie rockers may be discovering religion, but Irish band the Saw Doctors have been astute observers of religious hypocrisy for twenty years now.