Showing posts with label Andrew Sullivan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Andrew Sullivan. Show all posts
Sunday, February 24, 2019

Frédéric Martel's In the Closet of the Vatican: Valuable Commentary — "A Dishonest System Cannot Demand Honesty"

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I have not read Frédéric Martel's explosive new book In the Closet of the Vatican , about which there has been a flurry of commen...
Friday, December 15, 2017

Not Even Close: Knowing Exactly Who Roy Moore Is, Majority of White Alabamians — and White Evangelicals Overwhelmingly — Tried to Put Him in Senate

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8 in 10 white evangelicals & 6 in 10 white Catholics & Mormons elected Donald Trump, claiming "pro-life" motivation. ...
Thursday, December 14, 2017

Hot Takes on Moore Defeat: White Evangelicals Did It! It's All About Abortion! (And Why Masterpiece Cake Will Likely Prevail)

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Some takes on the Alabama election I should have anticipated, but did not: 1. Though 80 percent of white evangelicals in Alabama  cas...
Monday, May 23, 2016

Quote for Day: "Liberal Christians Often Pay Lip Service to Many Politically Radical Christian Thinkers and Activists While Lining Up Behind the Political and Economic Forces That They Fought Against"

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At Religion Dispatches , Daniel José Camacho responds to a recent article at the same venue by Ruth Graham which argues that liberal...
Monday, May 16, 2016

Claim That the Culture Wars are Over and Religious Right Is Obsolescent Links to Claim That Political Left and Identity Politics Are Responsible for Trump: My Take

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One thing I suppose many of us can agree on about the current U.S. presidential election cycle is that it has been full of surprise...
Monday, May 2, 2016

Andrew Sullivan Breaks Silence: Democracy Is the Problem! Political Correctness Is the Problem! Liberal Smugness Is the Problem! — An Apologia for White Working-Class Support for Trump

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Andrew Sullivan has broken his long silence (after he discontinued his blog) with an essay published yesterday in New York Magazine ...
Sunday, August 30, 2015

Ashley Madison Leaks: Men, Women, and Nannies — When Gay Men Excuse the Sexual Shenanigans of Straight Men. Because Testosterone.

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It's probably no secret to readers who have followed this blog over a longish period of time that I don't buy into all of the...
Thursday, February 5, 2015

Andrew Sullivan, Shrillness, and the Commonweal Worldview: Please Discuss

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"Shrill" is a gendered term, isn't it? Especially as it's used in popular-level American political discourse: ...
Friday, January 30, 2015

Glenn Greenwald on Jonathan Chait: "What Made the Indignity So Much Worse Was That the Attacks Came from People These Journalists Regard as Nobodies"

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As Joan Walsh notes in her valuable critique of Jonathan Chait's recent oy to the universe about, well, the astonishing way in...
Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Vatican Colloquium on Complementarity of Man and Woman: Continued Rebranding of Catholic Church As Boys' Club for Privileged Heterosexual Males

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The upcoming Vatican colloquium on the complementarity of man and woman : this is an attempt (in line with the latest conservative st...
Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Conservative Response to Ross Douthat on Impending Catholic Schism if Church Welcomes Gays: Damon Linker and Andrew Sullivan

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Two conservative thinkers respond to Ross Douthat about the schism he sees looming in the Catholic church if Pope Francis continues,...
Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Andrew Sullivan on Story of Paul Huff and Tom Wojtowick: Can the Church Survive in America?

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KULR-8 Television, Billings, MT Andrew Sullivan looks at the story of Paul Huff and Tom Wojtowick — two Catholic men who met in a Catho...
Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Testosterone, Castration, the American Political Right: A Consideration of the Narrative

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When I expressed my impatience recently with theories that ground male misbehavior in nature (specifically, in testosterone), Colleen...
Saturday, June 7, 2014

Andrew Sullivan, Et Al., on Testosterone, Tradition, and Natural Law in the Construction of Masculinity: A Rejoinder

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Andrew Sullivan says that he (along with Ross Douthat) is "kinda tired of" arguments like Fredrik DeBoer's recent asse...
Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Andrew Sullivan on Mass Grave of Irish Babies Born to "Fallen Women": "That Is Not a Sign of a Church Gone Astray. It's a Sign of a Church Given Over to Evil"

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Andrew Sullivan looks at the  discovery of the bodies of 800 babies in a mass grave (they were stuffed inside a septic tank) behind...
Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Quote for Day: "The Love Between a Black Man and a White Man Punches a Hole Through the Wall of Racism"

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Andrew Sullivan on the kiss just seen 'round the world, between Michael Sam and Vito Cammisano:
Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Beverly Wildung Harrison on Connections Between Racism and Misogyny, and Story of Donald Sterling: These -Isms Hang Together in Web of Patriarchy

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Recently, when I wrote about Andrew Sullivan's take on Jonathan Rauch's essay  calling for special tolerance for those who ...
Friday, April 25, 2014

Andrew Sullivan on Jonathan Rauch and the "Theological Underpinnings" of Marriage as a Gendered Institution: My Take

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Andrew Sullivan's take on the Jonathan Rauch essay  calling for special tolerance for those who oppose same-sex marriage out of ...
Friday, April 18, 2014

Richard Kim: Andrew Sullivan vs. Tony Kushner on Gay Rights — "Our Suffering Teaches Us Solidarity; or It Should"

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Richard Kim writes in The Nation  about the fundamental divergence between Andrew Sullivan's libertarian vision of what the movem...
Saturday, March 29, 2014

On the "Tipping Point" Metaphor, Gay Rights, and the Notion of Progress

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Some of you pressed me this week  (and here and here ) about what it means to say American culture is at a "tipping point...