Holy crap. "Paul Within Paganism," the book I co-edited w/ Paula Fredriksen & @alexichantz.bsky.social, got a long review essay in The New Yorker! Still sifting through the disparate threads Gopnik tries to tie together. Well earned shout-outs in it to @ryancollman.bsky.social @zafulotus.bsky.social
Flyer for talk KIRK LECTURE BOOK PANEL Capitalism and the Future of Democracy Wednesday, April 22,4:30 p.m. Sturm Hall, Lindsay Auditorium (online and in person) This panel asks: Is capitalism compatible with democracy? And how can we better understand the moral frameworks that sustain or challenge these systems? Drawing on Lucia Hulsether's Capitalist Humanitarianism, panelists will explore how ethical ideals like charity, freedom, and justice, shape political and economic life through a religious studies lens. The panelists reflections examine how capitalism absorbs moral critique, often reframing inequality as ethical opportunity. The session features brief reflections from Religious Studies and DU-Iliff Joint Doctoral Program students, a response from Dr. Hulsether, and a moderated Q&A, inviting the community to engage some defining questions of our time. Panelists: • Zane Johnson, DU-Iliff Joint Doctoral Program for the Study of Religion, Student • Devyn Whitaker, Master of Arts in Religious Studies, Student Kirsten Dalquist, DU-lliff Joint Doctoral Program for the Study of Religion, Student • Andrew Robb-Scott, DU-Iliff Joint Doctoral Program for the Study of Religion, Student David Kemp, DU-lliff Joint Doctoral Program for the Study of Religion, Candidate College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences UNIVERSITY OF DENVER Live Stream Also Available RSVP
Hi friends! Join us on 4/22, 4/23 for 2 events @uofdenver.bsky.social Religious Studies is hosting! Both are in person/online (link sent after registration)
Join us Wed, 4/22 @430pm
#Capitalism & the Future of #Democracy
Book panel & discussion w/@lhulseth.bsky.social & DU RLGS MA, PHD students.
Screenshot of flyer for talk KIRK LECTURE Socially Responsible Sweatshops: The Politics of "Ethical Capitalism" | Thursday, April 23, 5 p.m. Anderson Academic Commons 290 Over the past five decades, elites have absorbed left critiques into capitalism, framing racial equity initiatives, microloans, and fair-trade consumption as ways the system can address its own harms. These efforts sustain the belief that capitalism, aligned with humanitarian goals, can repair its violence. But what happens when even these modest reforms face backlash - not from the left, but from ethno-nationalists attacking "woke capitalism"? When gestures toward inclusion are cast as threats? Reflecting on her book,Capitalist Humanitarianism, Lucia Hulsether argues that today's right-wing movements are not a rupture from neoliberal globalism, but another expression of its underlying logic. RSVP Live Stream Also Available • College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences UNIVERSITY OF DENVER
Join us on Thurs, 4/23 @6pm (reception @5pm) In-person/livestream
@uofdenver.bsky.social Religious Studies welcomes the incomparable @lhulseth.bsky.social to deliver this year’s Kirk Lecture.
She discusses her award-winning book Capitalist Humanitarianism & the anathema of “ethical” #capitalism.
Graduate student workers at Harvard University are walking off their jobs Tuesday on the first day of a union strike that could disrupt academic life, just weeks before final exams.
Just one day after their contract expiration, on 6/30/2025, the Harvard administration unilaterally—and in violation of the collective bargaining agreement—carved out almost 1,000 student workers from their union eligibility. harvardgradunion.org/hgsu-onstrike/
Billie Little had worked for Thomson Reuters for about two decades. She was fired after questioning whether federal immigration agents unlawfully used their products. n.pr/3Ovl8k8
Congratulations!
'Following J.D. Vance’s comments earlier this week that the Pope should “stick to morality,” Williams said that he feels “slightly sorry” for the recent Catholic convert – “with just a hint of schadenfreude.”'
The Jerusalem Cross is a symbol of the Crusades. Disingenuous people argue it’s “just a representation of Christianity and not bigoted”
But we all fucking know the Crusades was about massacring anyone that wasn’t Christian.
Pete Hegseth has a HUGE one tattooed on his chest
It’s a symbol of hate.
Friends, Students, and Colleagues at @cudenverclas.bsky.social! Check out these two events at DU this week!
"Most time-traveling cyborg assassins are really pedagogical problems. Have you thought about using Perusall?"
oh and if you want to see the map I'm talking about in this introduction, it's online here!
images.natgeomaps.com/PROD_ZOOM/HM...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdFl...
A beautiful new book with a blue cover that says: Ethnic Relations in the Ancient Mediterranean: Social Life Under Empire by Philip A. Harland
@philharland.bsky.social ‘s book has arrived!
Statement of Jewish Leaders Against the Desecration of a Statue of Jesus in Southern Lebanon docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#interfaith
Everything, but yes
Hungarian taxpayers paid American “post-liberal” Rod Dreher $105,000 last year to produce propaganda for Orban’s regime. www.jaccusepaper.co.uk/p/the-strang...
“Good Law Project can reveal that the Roger Scruton Legacy Foundation (RSLF) has received…more than 90% of its funding – from Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) since 2023. This private college based in Budapest has close ties to Hungary’s [former] …prime minister, Viktor Orbán.”
2/12/26 … 1/
We’re defending Western Civilization by kicking Plato and Shakespeare out of university classes.
Chicagooooooo let's gooooo!
Wed at 7p!
womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/2026-0...
There was another attempted arson at a synagogue. This was in the UK. Two people threw molotov cocktails at the building, though fortunately they failed to explode.
Flier for UCI Labor Studies Certificate Program detailing certification overview and application requirements with a crowd protest background.
🙌 National High Five Day shoutout to our partners at the UC Irvine Labor Center and School of Social Sciences! They’re expanding the Labor Studies Certificate Program. Scan the QR code or click to apply: https://ow.ly/KXZL50YK7hW
It's OK to write something terrible
Just knocked out episode 1 while running and was engrossing enough to make me almost forget that I was running that long
Is Pope Leo XIV the right person to lead the Catholic Church? We asked four evangelicals at a megachurch outside of Nashville.
@disabilitystor1.bsky.social
oh goody this one is gendered female
and named after the history of science’s Patron Saint of Having Your Work Ripped Off and Unrecognized By Dudes
