If you are not yet up to speed on the religious dimensions of the events occurring in Wisconsin, head over to Religion in American History and read Paul Harvey’s analysis of some of the better stuff written on the topic. Harvey especially likes Paul Grant’s essay from Books and Culture, “Neighbor Against Neighbor in Wisconsin”
Harvey concludes:
It’s often pointed out that Wisconsin gave us both Robert LaFollette and Joseph McCarthy, so this “brinksmanship” is certainly not entirely new; and of course serious labor conflict in Wisconsin and elsewhere is not new either. Nonetheless, Grant’s piece helped me understand something of the way this movement has combined passion and order, and also something more about the religious motivations undergirding Governor Walker and his supporters.
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