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The Author’s Corner with Kathryn Olivarius

Rachel Petroziello   |  April 18, 2022

Kathryn Olivarius is Assistant Professor of History at Stanford University. This interview is based on her new book, Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom (Belknap Press of Harvard University, 2022). JF: What led you to write Necropolis? KO: […]

Capitalism exhibits “moral idiocy”

John Fea   |  February 11, 2022

I just learned about Christian cultural critic Rodney Clapp‘s recent book Naming Neoliberalism: Exposing the Spirit of Our Age. (I have never met Clapp, but he was the acquisition editor at Baker Books who offered me a contract for Why […]

The Marxist scholar who believes anti-racism is a cover for capitalism

John Fea   |  February 1, 2022

If you listen to some folks on the Right these days you might conclude that there is little difference between the anti-racism and Marxism. But as Benjamin Wallace-Wells reveals in his recent piece on political scientist Adolph Reed, there are […]

Do you have your Trump coin yet?

John Fea   |  January 30, 2022

One of these Make America Great Again coins could be yours for free (plus $9.99 shipping and handling). Just to be clear, these coins are different from the Trump King Cyrus coins that court evangelical prophet Lance Wallnau was hawking […]

Catholic social teaching as an alternative to neoliberalism

John Fea   |  January 5, 2022

Anthony Annett of Fordham University articulates the differences between neoliberalism and Catholic social teaching. Here are some of those differences: Neoliberalism defines human motivation in terms of self-interest. Catholic social teaching defines human motivation in terms of “solidarity, reciprocity, and […]

How Thanksgiving became a capitalist holiday

John Fea   |  November 23, 2021

In Monday’s Evangelical Roundup (available twice a week to Current patrons at the Surface level), I included a piece by Wallbuilders president Tim Barton in which he claims that the seventeenth-century Pilgrims defeated socialism. Here is Barton: We often think […]

Is Wawa about to plant a flag in Sheetz country?

John Fea   |  November 16, 2021

Unless you live in Pennsylvania and the surrounding area you probably have no idea what the title of this post means. Get up to speed here: It looks like Wawa is starting to make some inroads into Sheetz country. Here […]

The Author’s Corner with Jared Hardesty

Rachel Petroziello   |  October 21, 2021

Jared Hardesty is Assistant Professor of History at Western Washington University. This interview is based on his new book, Mutiny on the Rising Sun: A Tragic Tale of Slavery, Smuggling, and Chocolate (NYU Press, 2021). JF: What led you to […]

Commonplace Book #198

John Fea   |  August 25, 2021

However much the United States has been a moral or religious nation guided by (individual) impulses of spirit and conscience, it has also seen repeated mergers, or confusions, of religious and material intentions. One would be hard-pressed to argue that […]

Is Democratic Socialism anti-Christian?

John Fea   |  April 14, 2021

Here is a taste of Stephen Mattson‘s piece at Sojourners: “Why Democratic Socialism Isn’t Anti-Christian“: Contemporary Christians are among those who have embraced the democratic socialist platform as a necessary check against an economy and political system they view as […]

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