Now is an opportune time to do the right thing—to defund the police and invest in a diversified strategy for public safety and well-being.
Nathan Schneider
Nathan Schneider is a professor of media studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, as well as a contributing writer for America. He is the author of Thank You, Anarchy: Notes from the Occupy Apocalypse, an insider account of Occupy Wall Street’s first year in New York City, and God in Proof: The Story of a Search from the Ancients to the Internet, which both appeared in 2013 from University of California Press.
He has written about religion, technology, and social justice for publications including Harper's, The Nation, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Catholic Worker and Commonweal. He been an editor of two online publications, Killing the Buddha and Waging Nonviolence, and is as a contributing editor for the Social Science Research Council's online forum on religion and public life, The Immanent Frame, and YES! Magazine. He holds an MA in religious studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a BA in the same subject from Brown University.
Follow his work on Twitter at @ntnsndr and on his website.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
We know what caused the Colorado fire—and we need to say it: Climate change
My neighbors lost homes because our political and economic institutions have failed to respond to a crisis they have long known was coming.
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
‘The Chosen’ dares to imagine stories about Jesus and the disciples that aren’t in the Gospels. It’s a revelation.
Jonathan Roumie’s Jesus has fearsome power to open the Scriptures to us and the women and men who follow him are people in whom we can find traces of ourselves. It helps me love the Lord like I never have before.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
NFTs are leading to a new financial dystopia. Here’s why you should care.
This latest phase of capitalism has a feeling of déjà vu from its first stage—except rather than speculating on colonial land-grabs and the bodies of slaves, NFTs are making commodities of famous people and GIFs.
Posted inPolitics & Society, What Coronavirus Taught Us
What Coronavirus Taught Us about Technology
Online Mass has connected us to a wider church, but it will not replace our local parish.
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
Our world is ripe for revolution. 10 years after Occupy and the Arab Spring, what have we learned?
After all the hope I and others felt as the story of 2011 swept across the world, the accounting of the decade since leans mightily toward disaster.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
The assault on the Capitol was horrific. But occupying a legislature can be a legitimate act of protest.
It is worth remembering that occupying a legislature can be an act of democracy. We in the United States might need to do it again.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
This election is a referendum on who is allowed to break the law
Trump calls himself the “law and order” president. But his “law and order” is a promise for some at the expense of others.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
What innovations do people actually need after the pandemic? Not flying cars.
We can’t wait for the venture capitalists and their playthings to save us after the coronavirus, writes Nathan Schneider. It is time to turn to the innovation of cooperative economics.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
The pope just proposed a ‘universal basic wage.’ What does that mean for the United States?
“This may be the time,” he said, “to consider a universal basic wage.” This points to what is usually known as universal basic income—a regular, substantial cash payment to people just for being alive.