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This year marks one hundred years since the passage of the Immigration Act of 1924, popularly known as the Johnson-Reed Act. Reflecting the The Johnson-Reed Act functioned as an instrument of religious restriction and exclusion. In so doing, it advanced aspirations of building a Protestant nation.
I approached the project’s new anthology with some skepticism. Its contents quickly dispelled my doubts.
Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst gets really mad at calendars. Sure, the University of Vermont Associate Professor and Associate Director of the campus’ Humanities Center is also a mom and a popular podcast host, so she’s busy and maybe overscheduled…but that’s not why she’s mad. “Our calendar is Christian, we don’t have a secular calendar,” Morgenstein Fuerst said. “What would it look like if schools had an interfaith calendar?” “It’d be dope in the year 2021 if my second grader didn’t need to explain what Jewish holidays are,” she added, noting it’s a real issue when ...
AP Photo/Evan Vucci In an age of identity politics that puts a premium on skin color and other demographic factors as qualifications for public office rather than individual talent and experience, we are constantly told that a group like President Joe Biden’s cabinet picks must “look like America.” And a recent news story by Religion News Service’s (RNS) Yonat Shimron seems to affirm that Biden has indeed succeeded in satisfying that maxim, assuming all of his nominees are confirmed: “Joe Biden’s cabinet is set to make history in a number of ways. If all the nominees the president...