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Scientists are losing public trust, and they’re not the only ones. A new Pew Research Center survey on science shows that Americans’ confidence in a number of professional groups has declined since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. In April 2020, 63% of U.S. adults said they had a “great deal” or a “fair amount” of confidence in religious leaders.
Daniel Immerwahr reviews “The Lies of the Land: Seeing Rural America for What It Is—and Isn’t,” by Steven Conn.
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'The hard lesson is this: many of us take pride in our religiosity, but many others are also betrayed by it'
A regional and transnational history of anarchism in Korea by Dongyoun Hwang. This book provides a history of anarchism in Korea and challenges conventional views of Korean anarchism as merely part of nationalist ideology, situating the study within a wider East Asian regional context. Following the movement after 1945, Hwang shows how anarchism in Korea was deradicalized and evolved into an idea for both social revolution and alternative national development, with emphasis on organizing and educating peasants and developing rural villages.
In the 1990s, a “purity industry” emerged out of white evangelical Christian culture. Purity rings, purity pledges, and purity balls came with a dangerous message: girls are potential sexual “stumbling blocks” for boys and men, and any expression of a girl’s sexuality could reflect the corruptio ...