“Good Teacher, what shall I do?” Lee Edelman’s Bad Education
Kendall Gunter reviews Lee Edelman’s Bad Education, asking if queer theology provides a better response for how to love the world.
The Intellectual Tradition of the Political Right: An Interview with Matthew McManus
Colton Bernasol interviews author and philosopher Matt McManus on the nature, origins, and proponents of right-wing political thinking.
Martin Luther King Jr. as Social Gospel Socialist: Economic Democracy, Religious Philosophy, Political Philosophy, and Black Power
Gary Dorrien unpacks the formation of Martin Luther King Jr.’s full-orbed Christian socialism and the role it played in his activism and the Black freedom movement.
Blue Mass Matters
Klaus Yoder profiles Law and Order Catholicism and points towards a non-dualistic vision of faith and safety.
The Church Belongs to the Streets
Christopher Cruz recounts the history of the Young Lords and how their activism calls Christians to use our political power for the many.
A Review of Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future by Patrick Deneen
Matt McManus reviews Patrick Deneen’s Regime Change and critiques the autocratic and aristocratic postliberal future it offers.
Remoralizing Sex
Christine Emba’s recent book attempts to diagnose the malaise of contemporary sex culture. But her persistent avoidance of queer experience and theory, as well as an insufficient analysis of capitalism, thwarts her attempt at a new sexual ethic beyond consent.
The Political Theology of Milton Friedman
Milton Friedman’s ideas continue to exercise a profound influence on our political and economic imagination. On the sixtieth anniversary of Capitalism and Freedom, Adam Kotsko explores the uncanny relationship between Friedman’s neoliberalism and Christian theology.
What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?
Frederick Douglass’ famous Independence Day address took a rhetorical scalpel to the lofty self-image and founding texts of America. With political and religious fervor, he drove home the contradiction between republican values and chattel slavery.
The Only Way Out Is Through
In this exhausted political moment, a reactionary antipolitics is ascendent — one that looks to “traditional” aesthetic and religious pursuits as an antidote to the spiritual dead-end of conventional “woke” liberalism and free-market conservatism.