alt-right
Don’t be fooled by QAnon’s post-apocalyptic fury. It’s really spiritual hunger.
By Tara Isabella Burton — July 21, 2020
(RNS) — Followers of the online Q and white supremacism yearn for a world in which everything makes sense and where they at last have a role to play.
How a Catholic bishop and Jordan Peterson became fellow travelers
By Tara Isabella Burton — June 21, 2019
(RNS) — Peterson and his 'new atavists' share with their Catholic brethren a disillusionment with what they see as the feminization of contemporary, post-feminist, post-sexual-revolution America.
How ‘joke religion’ turns deadly serious when the online alt-right comes to life
By Tara Isabella Burton — May 14, 2019
(RNS) — The nihilism of today's alt-right is both a religion and a rejection of the transcendence that religion holds out as a balm.
Mormon whiteness, the alt-right and Charlottesville
By Martin E. Marty — September 26, 2017
(RNS) — There is no surprise that Mormon whiteness is newly discussed at a time when alt-right agitators and Charlottesville demonstrators have provoked discussion of the meaning of 'white.'
‘Blood and Faith’: A new book links white nationalists to Christianity
By Kimberly Winston — August 23, 2017
(RNS) — A new book traces how white nationalists have cherry-picked Scripture to craft their exclusive ideology.
For Southern Baptists, a sudden awakening and turn on the ‘alt-right’
By Martin E. Marty — June 20, 2017
The Convention, however, had something else first on its mind, namely the issue of race, which it had to take up before its participants headed home. Its leadership had “declined to bring to a vote a Texas pastor’s proposed resolution condemning the ‘alt-right’ movement,” proponents of a white supremacist culture that is attractive to some Southern Baptists and their kin and kind. But—stop the presses!—there came a sudden awakening and turn, “[a]fter a fierce backlash on social media.”
ADL: Southern Baptists did the right thing in condemning the ‘alt-right’
By David Sandmel — June 16, 2017
(RNS) We haven’t always agreed with the Southern Baptists. But in denouncing and repudiating white supremacy, we couldn't agree more.
In dramatic turnabout, Southern Baptists condemn white supremacy
By Adelle M. Banks — June 14, 2017
PHOENIX (RNS) The previous day, the Resolutions Committee declined to bring a similar statement to a vote.
When it comes to hate, I will not ‘get over it’
By Jeffrey Salkin — December 20, 2016
When anti-Semitism strikes a friend and colleague, I will not be silent.
The cost of Jewish silence on Bannon
By Jeffrey Salkin — November 22, 2016
Remember Elie Wiesel? Four months gone, and already spinning in his grave.
Holocaust museum alarmed over ‘hateful speech’ by white nationalists
By Jerome Socolovsky — November 22, 2016
WASHINGTON (Reuters) A video taken inside the meeting shows a white nationalist leader shouting "Hail Trump,” as some in attendance make a Nazi salute.
The real problem with Steve Bannon
By Jeffrey Salkin — November 15, 2016
Is Steve Bannon anti-Semitic, or "merely" anti-American?
Hillary should call out anti-Semitic Trump supporters
By Jeffrey Salkin — November 1, 2016
Anti-semitism should have been a hot issue in this election. What happened?
‘Denial’ is the movie for the election season
By Jeffrey Salkin — October 26, 2016
"Denial" is not only about the Holocaust. It is about frightening trends in America today.
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