As a philosopher, I am known for bringing a deeply uncomfortable truth to bear upon the hegemonic, hierarchical, and privileged embodied reality of whiteness. My aim has been to shape a critical discourse and produce a body of philosophical writing that reveals the ways in which whiteness functions as a mask, as a veil, to cover over the history of its violence. It does this through acts of denial…
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Pope Leo XIV on Monday said he would not back off his criticism of President Donald Trump’s war of choice in Iran after the president targeted him with an unhinged late-night social media rant. In a Sunday Truth Social post, Trump accused Pope Leo of being “WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy,” even though dealing with crime and running U.S. foreign policy are not part of the pope’…
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How Christian clergy talk about Jesus this Easter Sunday will tell you a lot about their politics. While parishioners in the U.S. are likely to be greeted by the traditional refrain, “He is risen,” at their April 5 Easter service, they’re just as likely to be met with the phrase, “Christ is King.” This rhetoric replaces the traditional understanding of Easter as a celebration of Jesus’s sacrifice…
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Pope Leo XIV used his Palm Sunday sermon to take what appears to be a shot at U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. In his sermon, excerpts of which he published on social media, the pope emphasized Christian teachings against violence while criticizing anyone who would invoke Jesus Christ to justify a war. “This is our God: Jesus, King of Peace, who rejects war, whom no one can use to…
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After more than two years of Israel’s attacks on the Gaza Strip, over 72,000 Palestinians are dead and more than 171,000 are injured, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Health. Amid these enormous losses, we are observing Eid al-Fitr, the “festival of breaking the fast” that takes place at the end of the holy month of Ramadan. The last four celebrations of Eid in Gaza have been marked by the…
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When I was 19 years old, I traveled to Israel to find long-lost relatives who had survived the Holocaust. While I was there, I was “picked up” on the street by an ultra-orthodox woman who offered me free lodging in a hostel exclusively for Jewish travelers in the Old City of Jerusalem. I was a broke teenager at the time, so I said yes. It was Hanukkah, and all across the Jewish Quarter…
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