Arc Magazine

Religion, Politics, Et Cetera

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"It is hard not to imagine the eyes she was looking into, how Hodler looked back at her, and what relation was formed, or transformed, in the exchange."

@fanniebialek on a Swiss painting from a century ago helps us reflect on love over time
https://t.co/zjTdo85fXE

[Arc Magazine @ReligPolitics]

At exactly 2:22 a.m., on a random Monday morning in February 2025, God asked Ché Ahn to do the seemingly impossible: run for governor of California as a Republican.

Kimberly Winston on Ahn's gubernatorial mission.
https://t.co/Qps1sGpQT3

[Maggie Phillips @maggiemphillips]

I wrote for @ReligPolitics a while back about the debate over tying private school vouchers to school accreditation. It’s a live issue!

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"Just as we have become a formidable demographic chunk of American society, the very principles of secularism that we cherish, and which serve to protect us, are being undone."

Phil Zuckerman on being secular in Trump's America
https://t.co/5GJPhPEuBF

[Arc Magazine @ReligPolitics]

A definitive explainer on where Candace Owens gets her conspiracy theories. @GSDeutch @ArnoRosenfeld @benshapiro @benyamincohen @RealCandaceO https://t.co/mAa6dHlxvJ

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Where does Candace Owens get her antisemitic conspiracy theories? Jay Michaelson explains their lineage, going back 500 years, in this video:
https://t.co/b9A59BGbby

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Candace Owens frequently references obscure figures in Jewish history. Why is Owens fixated on these mostly-forgotten figures in Jewish history? How did she even find out about them?

@jaymichaelson discusses the origins of Owens's antisemitism
https://t.co/cZBFnyBsiF

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"Susan Cheever pays a lot of attention to how her father cadged from the family for his stories, and in so doing blurred the line between life and fiction."

Rand Richards Cooper reviews Susan Cheever's new book on the life and work of her father.
https://t.co/l8usJmgg3b

[Jacob Hundt @Driftlesshire]

@ReligPolitics This is the most comprehensive reporting on the Microcollege movement that I have seen anywhere.

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Why is momentum building for startup liberal arts colleges now? How can they help us understand what education is for?

Matthew J. Smith on the quiet surge of alternative micro-colleges.
https://t.co/fVQXUmr7MG

[Arc Magazine @ReligPolitics]

Why has romantasy become such a powerful force in fiction?

Louise McCray suggests that the controversy over its explicit content misses the real issue: the genre's appeal lies in its vision of the self.
https://t.co/ENu6bDxE7X

[Stu Halpern @StuHalpern]

When Lincoln was shot on April 14, 1865, which was both Good Friday and the fifth day of Passover, both Christian and Jewish religious leaders connected the tragedy to the tenth plague of Exodus. My latest in @ReligPolitics https://t.co/wZyIlQu9yb

[Motti Seligson @mottiseligson]

Today, 11 Nissan — the Rebbe's birthday and Education Day, USA. This essay in @ReligPolitics by @Tamara__Mann is the best thing I've read on why that connection matters, and why it still does. https://t.co/S91SFG69zq

[Arc Magazine @ReligPolitics]

"During the Western Christian Holy Week of 2026, how might churchgoers reckon with menacing forms of Christian-ish Americana, from sea to shining sea?"
Amy Laura Hall on the TV shows that offer clearer views of American Christianity than any pundit:
https://t.co/YiHDueTc4O

[Arc Magazine @ReligPolitics]

"A sharp, vulnerable, and occasionally cranky spirit cuts through each chapter as the author sifts the viscera of pain."

Tom Gogola on author Darcey Steinke's new book "This Is the Door: The Body, Pain, and Faith"
https://t.co/65Q5o16yYG

[Arc Magazine @ReligPolitics]

On March 25, 1911, a fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory killed 146 workers. More than a century later, a mother and her daughter commemorate the life of 14-year-old Katie Leone each year with a tribute in chalk.
https://t.co/13qdmAwf0D

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“Forty years ago, 'Liam' was the kind of name American tongues stumbled over. Too Irish, too inconvenient.“

In this week of St. Patrick’s Day, the rise of the name “Liam” says something about belonging—and about who still gets marked as foreign.
https://t.co/HRFureVkN5

[Arc Magazine @ReligPolitics]

Is James Talarico the right man for a different moment? Have Democrats found a religious politics they can stomach?

On the Senate candidate who doesn’t fit in with MAGA Republicans—or with today’s Democrats:
https://t.co/DR41gy4Whn

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Whatever happened to American Jewish liberalism?

Abe Silberstein discusses how American Jewish institutions are embracing parochial retreat just as democracy comes under siege.
https://t.co/mFoPXZXb6O

[Stephen G. Adubato @stephengadubato]

I wrote about this in @ReligPolitics

https://t.co/lap8F2Hzog