The title of this article is a recent quote from Steven Crowder, an immensely popular conservative YouTuber with almost six million subscribers. “He’s not wrong about everything,” Crowder quipped about Kanye West’s recent and obviously anti-Semitic remarks.
Category: Religion in Politics
Kamala Harris: Walking the Tight-Rope of Political Correctness
Kamala Harris, California’s junior senator and perhaps a 2020 presidential candidate, is walking into the quagmire of political correctness with a nominee for the federal court in Nebraska. It has to do, in part, with religion. Most politicians tend to avoid questions related to religion because the risk of offending someone is far greater than the payoff of criticism, however justified.
Defying religious misogyny, Hindu women create a human wall of inclusion
As we in the U.S. watched the federal government shut down because of one man’s fixation on a border-wall boondoggle meant to exclude desperate
“Xenophobic, anti-Islam, anti-Semitic racist.” Who, me?
When you’re running for a school board position in suburban St. Louis and tweet out memes about banning Islam in America, what could possibly
Conservatives and the Old Confederacy have Credibility Gap
It should not surprise us that Judge Roy Moore supporters and others on the extreme right have taken to lambasting the Washington Post. When
The Romans had it partially right about Trump
At the conclusion of his “Here’s my take” on his Sunday, February 19, 2017 GPS program, Fareed Zakaria referenced how Roman leaders maintained control
There’s no crying in baseball, or politics
As I watched some of the Bernie Sanders supporters at the Monday night session of the Democratic National Convention, I couldn’t help but think
Teaching the reality of climate change, one classroom at a time
You wouldn’t think that it would be controversial for a journalism professor to come to high schools in the Midwest to discuss his reporting
Donald Trump and the Evangelical Industrial Complex
Republicans tend to believe that the bulwark of their strength comes from those people who are very conservative, which includes the millions of Evangelical
Dr. King’s dream, and the hijabi women who dream it, too
Standing in front of the Lincoln Memorial before a throng of civil-rights activists in August of 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his