Kendrick Lamar is playing a different game

The “great American game” is played to win and to exclude. Lamar’s halftime show made the case for turning our attention to something better.

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Simone Weil’s anti-fascist blueprint

Ros Schwartz’s translation of The Need for Roots makes Weil’s masterpiece feel as urgent today as it was in 1943.

Kendrick Lamar is playing a different game

The “great American game” is played to win and to exclude. Lamar’s halftime show made the case for turning our attention to something better.

Nosferatu and the horror of enlightenment

Robert Eggers’s film reminds us that much of what presents itself as common sense is just a contingent arrangement, one form of folklore instead of another.

Did the mainline church pave the way for Christian nationalism?

Brian Kaylor and Beau Underwood plumb history to show how the Protestant mainline has intertwined church and state interests.

Politics

Simone Weil’s anti-fascist blueprint

Ros Schwartz’s translation of The Need for Roots makes Weil’s masterpiece feel as urgent today as it was in 1943.

I still have a voice

After the election, I was worried about people being silenced. So I joined a choir.

Politics close to home

What’s the next right thing we can do? It might be getting involved at the state or local level.

How and what to think

I’m only trying to teach my religion students one of these things. At least that’s what I tell them.