Trump’s charisma and meteoric rise in politics is merely the culmination of White evangelicals’ search for a hero that would kick the asses of liberals and the nation’s external enemies.
The human being, Günther Anders proposes, is a creature distinguished by its lack of a fixed place or definite purpose in the order of creation. Before being “in the world,” the human finds itself added on to it: superfluous, obsolete, excluded.
The basic assumption of Jesus’s parable is not that one must act a certain way for the giver, but rather that it is good and right and beneficial for all to have a daily living wage, with no strings attached.
We invited Mac Loftin, Hanna Reichel, and Phil Christman, authors of recent books speaking to our present moment of crisis, to reflect on the other two books — and the state of the world.
We invited Mac Loftin, Hanna Reichel, and Phil Christman, authors of recent books speaking to our present moment of crisis, to reflect on the other two books — and the state of the world.
As is the case with religion, progressive intellectuals tend to look on charisma with suspicion, relegating it to the realm of authoritarian and manipulative politics.
