Katherine Stewart | The New York Review of Books

Katherine Stewart

Katherine Stewart is an author and journalist. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, the Atlantic, The Guardian, the Nation, and Rolling Stone, among other publications. Her nonfiction books are The Good News Club: The Christian Right’s Stealth Assault on America’s Children (2012) and The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism (2020). (February 2020)

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The Real Meaning of ‘Religious Liberty’

This is the real meaning of “religious liberty”: the privilege enjoyed by a certain group to hold special status in our society, to claim public money and resources for itself, and to identify a despised other and organize around its contempt of that enemy.

February 28, 2020