• Religion
  • Politics
  • Culture
  • About
  • Contact
Patrol - A review of religion and the modern world

Radical Hope

By David Sessions On October 14, 2011 · 3 Comments · In Politics

I was at Occupy Wall Street last Sunday, listening to Slavoj Žižek talk about the end of the world. Or the end of the world as we know, at least, the end of capitalism, which he beautifully described as “waking up from the dream that is becoming a nightmare.” Another thing [...]

Continue Reading →

‘Class Warfare’ and Born-Again Capitalism

By David Sessions On September 23, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Politics, Religion

A matter of hours after President Obama announced his proposal to reduce the federal deficit, which includes $2 in spending cuts to every $1 of new government revenue, his opponents were on television hailing the plan as the return of “class warfare.” Conservative evangelicals dutifully picked up the line, but gave it a slight twist: [...]

Continue Reading →

Capitalism and the West’s Existential Crisis: An Interview With Terry Eagleton

By David Sessions On July 31, 2011 · 6 Comments · In Politics, Religion

A few months ago, English literary critic Terry Eagleton was kind enough to speak with me for a few moments about his latest book, Why Marx Was Right, published in April by Yale University Press. I can’t recommend it highly enough, and hopefully this will give you a taste. [...]

Continue Reading →

Free-Market Christianity

By David Sessions On April 11, 2011 · 13 Comments · In Politics, Religion

RJ Moeller is getting started on a series on why the Bible supports free-market capitalism. It doesn’t look promising, but I’m resisting the temptation to jump the gun and respond before he’s made his case. I will be definitely be answering this in the future, so if you’re interested [...]

Continue Reading →
  • Follow Us

    Follow Us on FacebookFollow Us on TwitterFollow Us on RSS
  • Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

  • Facebook

  • The Latest

    • Philosophical Flavors
    • History, Atheism, Community: Posing a Question
    • Rap Battle: Christianity Today’s Hip-Hop Cover Story is a Contextless Disaster
    • What Really Happens When People Lose Their Religion?
    • We Are Not That #BostonStrong
  • Twitter

    • No public Twitter messages.
  • Advertisement

    Not Your Mother's Morals
  • Tags

    Abortion Albert Mohler Andrew Sullivan Atheism Barack Obama Bible Book Review Books Catholic Church Christian Christianity Christianity Today Christian Right Conservatives Dinesh D'Souza Evangelicalism Evangelicals Facebook Faith Feminism God History Jesus Mark Driscoll Marriage Marvin Olasky Media New Sincerity New York City New York Times Patheos Philosophy Politics Quote of the Day Religion Religion and Spirituality Rick Perry Rob Bell Ross Douthat Same-sex marriage Sarah Palin Sex Theology United States Women
  • Archives

Masthead

David Sessions
Founding Editor
Jonathan D. Fitzgerald
Editor
Kenneth Sheppard
Book Review Editor

© Patrol 2013

Most Recent

  • Philosophical Flavors
  • History, Atheism, Community: Posing a Question
  • Rap Battle: Christianity Today’s Hip-Hop Cover Story is a Contextless Disaster
  • What Really Happens When People Lose Their Religion?
  • We Are Not That #BostonStrong

Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries RSS
  • Comments RSS
  • WordPress.org

Search

Platform by PageLines