"Two New Movies Share a Clear Message: Don’t Forget Jamal Khashoggi" (10/2/2020)

 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/02/movies/jamal-khashoggi-kingdom-of-silence-the-dissident.html

"Bari Weiss brands AOC an antisemite" (10/2/2020)

 https://mondoweiss.net/2020/10/bari-weiss-brands-aoc-an-antisemite/

David Brooks: "At His Core, Trump Is an Immoralist" (10/1/2020)

Some Republicans see Trump’s immorality as a sideshow they will tolerate to secure other goods. But his immorality is voracious, a widening gyre that threatens the basic stability of civic life. If he undermines this election, and his Republican enablers let him, he’ll approach what comes next with appalling ferocity.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/01/opinion/trump-ethics-immorality.html

IIIT: Dr. SherAli Tareen on Narratives of Emancipation in Muslim Colonial India

Elizabeth Bruenig in the Washington Post: "Talk of a rising religious left is unfounded. It already exists." (April 11, 2019)

 In a phone interview, Burge theorized that, as churches move to the right, their liberal members don’t necessarily respond by forming religious-left offshoots, but instead leave religion altogether. A person in that situation, Burge mused, might simply say: “I think I’m done with religion, because there’s no place for me.”  [...]

The religious left is at its most authentic when standing in opposition to earthly power, serving as a prophetic conscience for all those who wield it for ill — consider, for example, the successes of the civil rights and anti-Vietnam War movements.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-religious-left-is-always-just-about-to-happen-will-it-ever-arrive/2019/04/11/f4500bc6-5c83-11e9-9625-01d48d50ef75_story.html 

 

NPR: "Provoked By Trump, The Religious Left Is Finding Its Voice" (January 24, 2019)

 https://www.npr.org/2019/01/24/684435743/provoked-by-trump-the-religious-left-is-finding-its-voice

Book Review by Casey Cep in the New Yorker: "Is There a Religious Left?" (June 11, 2020)

The daughter of a Baptist preacher who was once the dean of the Howard University School of Divinity, Newsome came by her faith and her preaching honestly, yet almost all of the publicity that followed her act of civil disobedience stripped her protest of its theological tenor. Such is the fate of much of the activism of the so-called religious left: if it is successful, it is subsumed by broader causes and coalitions; if it fails, it is forgotten. For all the opprobrium directed at the religious right, the activism of religious leftists suffers a different fate, alternately ignored and fetishized, trotted out every election cycle with a tone befitting the Second Coming: always just about to happen. This year’s Presidential race is the most obvious occasion for the new book “American Prophets: The Religious Roots of Progressive Politics and the Ongoing Fight for the Soul of the Country,” by the reporter Jack Jenkins.

[...] 

That is all too often the tone of coverage of the religious left. In her book “The Party Faithful: How and Why Democrats Are Closing the God Gap,” from 2008, the journalist Amy Sullivan observed the contradictory ways in which religious liberals and religious conservatives are covered by the mainstream press, with the faith of right-wing politicians generally taken at face value, while those on the left are often ignored, treated with skepticism, or disparaged as insincere and pandering.

 https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/is-there-a-religious-left