US Christians Take Direct Action for Palestine Liberation: Three Legacies
Mennonite pastor Jay Bergen, subject of TikTok scrutiny, reflects on being arrested for Gaza solidarity and how faith-based direct action is reshaping religious resistance to US-backed violence in Palestine.
Has Capitalism Stolen Our Moral Vocabulary? Rediscovering R. H. Tawney’s Christian Socialist Ethics
In an age when capitalism defines virtue as profit, Tawney offers a forgotten moral language and creed for a left that has lost faith in both religion and justice.
The Great Democratic God of Herman Melville and C. L. R. James
In Melville and James, Kuiper uncovers a shared vision of radical democracy and a spiritually infused socialism rooted in both nature and imagination.
Building Moral Economies is Utterly Possible: An Interview with Cynthia Moe-Lobeda
Colton Bernasol interviews Cynthia Moe Lobeda on the “Building a Moral Economy” book series, discussing the damaging effects of capitalism and the religious resources needed to imagine a moral economy.
The Municipal Socialism of a Local New York State Mayor
New York’s first socialist mayor, George R. Lunn, sought to put “Christianity applied” into practice at the city level.
Freedom’s False Promises
At its core, what we are lacking is a power analysis—a clear, honest account of who holds power, how they wield it, and at whose expense. Without this analysis, we are left to blame ourselves for the conditions we live in: economic precarity for the working majority, escalating threats to civil rights based on gender, sex, and race, and the climate crisis that threatens our collective future.
Remembering MacIntyre’s Marxism and his Struggle against the Perils of Capitalism
MacIntyre never departed from his Marxist influence. He understood Marx as part of a long genealogy of philosophers who helped us think critically about the human condition, and about imagining life beyond capitalism.
Pope Francis Should be Remembered for his Tireless Advocacy for the Environment, Refugees, Global Peace, and Workers
Nobody can reliably predict the long-term legacy of Pope Francis. He will most probably be remembered many decades and even centuries hence as a creative innovator and as a guardian of Catholic social justice advocacy, faithful to the strong commitments of his papal predecessors over the previous century.
A Case for the Politics of Love
Rather than justice, David True and Tom James call for the revolutionary politics of love and desire as the grounds for transformative, radical, change.
How “Selling Your Soul” Went Secular
For more than two thousand years, the idea of “selling your soul” has generated a moral shock in the Western world. Only by recognizing the long history of “selling your soul” can we understand why a famously anti-religious thinker like Marx would end up quoting from Genesis in this manner.