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Losing
My Religion
The Republican Party relied
on evangelical Christians
for decades. But with young
people leaving in droves, a
political reckoning is afoot.
BY NINA BURLEIGH
THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS
Exvangelicals are rejecting the vitriolic
partisanship of the Trump era. The
result is a shrinking conservative bloc—
one the GOP has come to rely on.
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The Archives
During the anxious months leading up to the invasion of Iraq,
2002 national security adviser Condoleezza Rice was, according to
writer Evan Thomas, a “Warrior Princess.” He noted that as the first woman to
serve in the position, she put “an end to occasional outbursts of ‘locker-room
joking.’” Rice played a critical role in crafting the “intellectual framework” for
the Iraq War, which eventually resulted in a promotion: secretary of state. Her
insistences that Iraq was stockpiling weapons of mass destruction, of course,
have since been discredited.
1965
Charles de Gaulle (as painted by Georges
Rouault) had been re-elected president of
France. Reviews of the war hero’s irst term
were mixed, according to Newsweek. “The
general has achieved much…but he has
also antagonized his erstwhile allies.”
Perhaps, but his legacy is air tight: No pres-
ident has been as beloved by the French.
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glory days. Coach Red Holzman’s “luid,
devastating offense and imaginative
defense,” and a team that included Willis
Reed, Walt Frazier and future politician
Bill Bradley, had the team sailing to the
NBA championships in 1970 and ’73. As
L.A. Laker Jerry West put it, “I don’t think
they know just how good they are.”
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Periscope NEWS, OPINION + ANALYSIS
SUPREME LEADER
Ali Khamenei’s
Iran has been
emboldened by
Trump’s energy
sanctions to
work with China
and Russia.
WORLD
Snake Oil
Trump has pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal, imposing the largest energy
sanctions ever. In isolating Tehran, he may have made it stronger
The SouTh ParS gaS field in The PerSian The Trump administration’s post–nuclear deal
Gulf was an offshore discovery that, for oil- policy on Iran is straightforward: increase the eco-
men, is the stuff of dreams. The largest natural gas nomic pain on the regime until it comes back to
LE FT: PO OL /KHAMENEI.IR/ANAD OLU AGENCY/GET T Y; TOP RI G HT: JOSE A . BERNAT BACETE/GET T Y
ield in the world, it stretches across the maritime the table to renegotiate a better agreement. Crit-
border between Iran and Qatar. American economic ics of the original deal (several of whom now hold
sanctions, however, had kept it off-limits to Western key positions in the Trump administration) argue
energy companies for years. When the U.S. and other that this approach was working under the Obama
world powers negotiated the 2015 nuclear deal, that administration—until it let Tehran off the mat.
unlocked the potential bounty. The French oil giant This time, they vow, that won’t happen.
Total soon signed a deal to help develop a key por- But as the Total retreat and the Chinese advance
tion of the ield and started work last year. at South Pars illustrate, it’s not going to be easy to
Then Donald Trump was elected. His administra- get Iran to tap out. As U.S. relations with Tehran,
tion pulled out of the deal and, in late November, Beijing and Moscow continue to deteriorate, those
imposed severe economic penalties—again. three governments have banded together to try to
Facing the threat of “secondary sanctions”—U.S. stymie U.S. sanctions, which they all believe, despite
sanctions on any foreign companies doing busi- Trump administration denials, are aimed at regime
ness in Iran—Total withdrew from the South Pars, change in Iran. The intensifying economic relation-
deciding, as many European companies have, that ship between Iran, China and Russia is the latest,
access to the U.S. market remains more important most obvious signal that the U.S. is now in a de
than deals in Iran. In Total’s wake, though, came facto Cold War with those nations.
the China National Petroleum Corp., a state- Secretary of State Mike Pompeo signaled as
owned giant based in Beijing. “It’s a much in a speech in Brussels earlier
gift to China,” says a longtime Total this month. The administration’s for-
adviser not authorized to speak BY eign policy goal, he said, is to build
publicly, “and a self-inlicted wound a “new liberal order,” which includes
for the West.” BILL POWELL “lawfully exiting or renegotiating
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Periscope WORLD
Western economic sanctions, Iran has New U.S. sanctions Meanwhile, diplomats in the U.S.,
also gained experience in how to flout are “a gift to China Europe and East Asia expect China
them. In November, less than two
weeks after the Trump administra- and a self-inlicted and Russia to continue to invest in
Iran. And that’s no matter what the
tion’s new sanctions went into effect, wound for the West.” U.S. says.
J A PA N
Patents filed by
spending to put itself
R&D expenditure
Japan (2017) as % of GPD (2016)
major presence in international sec- a proper state and developing them in size, upgrading equipment and
tors including automobiles, electron- at a higher level of quality. That is lightweight requirements of equip-
ics, foods and housing. It is within what distinguishes Japanese people ment parts are not only seen in
these markets that “the commercial- as a nation,” he says. the semiconductor industry but
ization of natural colors” has become For Naotaka Kondo, President of also in other industries, so we are
a unique purpose for the company. Toyo Tanso Co. Ltd. – whose main looking towards more expansion
With DIC Corporation now business is graphite, a type of carbon of this product.”
advancing into the digital era, it is that is used in a range of industries, C/C is also being used in aster-
adapting its portfolio further still to such as in the production of semi- oid probes developed by the Japan
offer solutions for monitors and dis- conductors – the underlying value of Aerospace Exploration Agency
plays, whilst at the same time closely “Since our inception, monozukuri is assessing the needs of and plasma testing equipment for
monitoring the newest trends of the we have embraced the society, taking time to think about nuclear fusion reactors.
market in order to provide the col- pioneering spirit of future needs, and truly listening to Sumitomo Electric, a global
ors required by its clients across its manufacturing unique the customer. leader in the manufacture of elec-
product range. “We follow trends that are hap- tric wire and optical fiber cables
Japan Inc. may be investing more and innovative carbon pening around us and propose what which is also developing photo-
in R&D to ward off competition products specialized for could be helpful or what could be voltaic solar panels for energy
from China and South Korea, but highly functional fields” necessary in the near future. This generation, is another company
there is one thing that has always creates a win-win situation between that has been dedicating more
given Japan its competitive edge Naotaka Kondo, President, us as a manufacturer and the cus- investment in R&D to stay ahead
– monozukuri. Monozukuri is the Toyo Tanso Co. Ltd. tomers that use and apply our prod- of the curve.
unique essence of Japanese manu- ucts in their daily lives,” he says. Last year, its R&D expendi-
facturing which revolves around a “Since our inception, we have ture amounted to 117.7 billion yen
sincere dedication to craftsmanship, honesty, diligence and unity. That embraced the pioneering spirit of ($ 1.04 billion). For this year, it
perfection and innovation. unique mindset is exported abroad manufacturing completely unique has raised its R&D budget to 125
“Japanese people have a unique by Japanese corporations.” products, and continued to take on billion yen.
mentality that upholds attention Masahiro Nakajima, Chairman challenges in the pursuit of unique “This dedication to R&D al-
to detail and customer satisfac- and CEO of Morita Holdings Cor- and innovative carbon products spe- lowed us to create new busi-
tion above all else. This devotion to poration, agrees that the nation’s cialized for highly functional fields.” nesses, such as a concentrator
craftsmanship has made our prod- manufacturing prowess is also deep- Toyo Tanso was the first com- photovoltaic (CPV) system that
ucts reliable and trustworthy,” says ly rooted in the character of Japa- pany in the world to successfully has twice the conversion efficien-
Hiromichi Tatsuno, President of the nese people. “Japanese people have mass produce large-size isotropic cy of standard crystalline silicon
Tatsuno Corporation. a deep interest, not just in making graphite in 1974, and its carbon photovoltaic,” says Osamu Inoue,
“Japanese society promotes things, but also in preserving them in products and technology have con- president and COO.
tinued to evolve with the needs of “While developing new business-
the times. Its products can be found es is a crucial goal of our R&D, we
in everything from automobiles and also focus on enhancing the quality
home appliances to cutting-edge of our existing businesses. We are
products in fields such as aerospace also developing advanced optical
and medical care. The company’s fiber products. We have developed
operations span the globe, and in ultra-high density optical fiber cable,
the U.S. it has been servicing the and we are currently developing
semiconductor industry for over even more advanced products soon
25 years. to be commercialized.”
Toyo Tanso is also investing As Japanese companies such
heavily in R&D to remain at the as DIC, Toyo Tanso and Sumitomo
forefront of the graphite industry continue to invest more in R&D to
by providing innovative materi- develop new products with the
als and solutions to help both the spirit of monozukuri, the Land of
company and its customers to stay the Rising Sun is ready to rise again,
ahead of their competition. It has putting itself at the forefront of in-
recently developed a diverse range novation for a changing world.
of composite materials such as C/C
carbon fibre, which is lighter and
easier to handle than graphite.
“In the semiconductor indus-
try, manufacturing equipment for #TheWorldfolio
semiconductors is becoming bigger #JapanTheWorldfolio
in size to increase the volume of
production. According to this trend,
our graphite products, which are PRODUCED BY
used in manufacturing equipment THE WORLDFOLIO
for semiconductors, are also get- Antoine Azoulay – Country Director
ting heavier and bigger in size,” Alexandre Marland – Editorial Director
explains Mr. Kondo. Sean Mapleden – Chief Market Analyst
“Therefore, semiconductor Daiki Hijikata – Market Analyst
customers are adopting lighter Marta Z. de Castro – Coordinator
C/C composite products. Trends Sonal Malkani – Interpreter
SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION
Thanks to its commitment to R&D, Tatsuno Corporation, a pioneer in the fuel dispenser field, has been providing innovative
technologies in LPG, CNG, LNG and hydrogen to prepare the automotive industry for the age of sustainability.
Fossil fuel-powered vehicles have future of cars. I fully believe and sustainable development of energy firms, pledged to build
ruled the roads for a century, but that EVs will be in demand, but the right energy mix. EV tech- 80 hydrogen fuelling stations
over the coming decades, the it doesn’t mean that electric nology is an innovation for the by 2022.
number of vehicles running on vehicles or battery-driven cars future and we are fully aware Looking to the future for fuel
alternative energy sources will will completely replace the tra- of its consequences. However, I pump manufacturers like Tatsuno,
grow as nations around the globe ditional engine,” says Hiromichi am sure that it will not destroy hydrogen fuelling stations repre-
scramble to drastically reduce car- Tatsuno, President of Tatsuno our business.” sents a major opportunity in the
bon emissions. Corporation, a century-old man- Tatsuno’s business may not face of disruption from EVs. The
Electronic vehicles (EVs) have ufacturer of fuel pumps for the be destroyed, but Mr. Tatsuno company is supporting the pro-
been hailed as the primary suc- Japanese market, as well as mar- and others in the fuel industry liferation of hydrogen-powered
cessor to fossil-fuel powered cars and has already developed
cars. According to a study by HYDROGEN NX, a hydrogen dis-
consultancy firm McKinsey, last penser for fuel cell vehicles that
year, global sales of new EVs is widely used in Japan. For more
passed a million units for the than a century, Tatsuno has inno-
first time; and under the current vated with the times, and the HY-
growth trajectory, “EV produc- DROGEN NX is the latest example
ers could almost quadruple that of the company’s innovations for
achievement by 2020, moving a changing world.
4.5 million units, around 5 per- “We are investing heavily in
cent of the overall global light- hydrogen and we now export
vehicle market”. dispensers to the U.S. and China.
But 5 percent is a tiny por- Tatsuno has innovated with the times and displays its innovations at There are about 100 hydrogen
tion and many industry insiders the showroom in its Yokohama plant stations in Japan of which Tat-
are not entirely convinced that kets in Europe, Asia and Africa. are aware they will certainly suno owns a 50-percent share,”
EVs will be able to completely “If the EV change is real, we see disruption over the years by says Mr. Tatsuno.
replace vehicles powered by the will need to see at least 300 the growth of EVs and hybrid “Hydrogen started out as a
traditional internal combustion million of them within the next vehicles. Another green alterna- huge cost but we’ve been able to
engine. Rather than a draco- five to six years. If the number tive being championed in Japan cut it down over time. Without
nian move to eradicate fossil-fuel remains below that, it would rep- is hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. lowering it, we can’t achieve a
powered cars completely, some resent rather little change in com- Giants like Toyota and Honda are future where hydrogen is widely
propose a healthy mix of both parison to the two billion-plus car all already developing and intro- used in society. We’ll continue to
traditionally and alternatively market we are projected to have. ducing hydrogen fuel cell cars invest in our R&D facilities and
fuelled vehicles on our roads. “I am not saying that gasoline to the market; while earlier this production facilities, because
“Everyone investing in EVs is the only source to rely upon. year, an alliance of 11 Japanese we want to further develop the
is preaching for the righteous What I fight for is the sensible firms, including automakers and hydrogen business.”
INNOVATION FOR
A CHANGING WORLD
tatsuno-corporation.com
SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION
MVF21
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isms, therefore averting environ- up a strong corporate culture generation of synthetic natural gas.
mental contamination. to allow the company to deal ITO Corporation has developed an
“While we accept industries have with changing environments, award-winning PA System initially
to use the resources of the earth, and contributing to society. to act as a lifeline in earthquakes
our job is to supply the chemicals With a mission to “use energy to and other disasters.
that help these companies reduce create a beautiful, inhabitable “We developed this system in
their negative impact on the earth,” Earth”, ITO Corporation looks to response to earthquakes because
says Mr. Nomura. achieve its goal trough maximis- it allows gas to be used even after
ing the potential of numerous an earthquake,” explains company
Energy Manufacturing award-winning R&D capabili- president, Niroh Utsumi. “In mar-
“While copying teaches Another company that embod- ties and production technology keting it to other countries, we
you about know-how, it ies the very spirit of chukenkigyo in order to create environmen- emphasise two points. The first
does not teach you about is ITO Corporation, an expert in tally-friendly, high-quality, low- point is that it can be used after
know-why. To innovate, gas supplying equipment. In- cost products. an earthquake as it allows the gas
both are needed” deed, the company’s manifes- With the pressing need that the supply to be restored.
tation of Japanese manufactur- world faces today to sustain its “This appeals to countries
ing culture even extends to its natural environment, the future of where there are frequent earth-
Norio Nagai, President,
name, which it changed in 2014 energy has become an extremely quakes. The second point that is
Nabell Corporation to reflect the values of innova- important topic. Through the emphasised is that the system can
tion technology and origination manufacture of essential products be used to supply gas when the
pollution by industry. Whereas (ITO) – characteristics often as- for the energy sector, including gas infrastructure is undergoing
before power plants would use sociated with monozukuri. Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) and maintenance. In many countries
chlorine to kill micro-organisms Like Katayama Chemical, the Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), ITO around the world, if gas infra-
within sea water that prevented company’s major focus is also Corporation endeavours to shape structure is undergoing mainte-
their cooling systems form work- centred on sustainability. Since the future in a sustainable way. nance, the gas just stops and they
ing properly, the company for- its inception in 1953, ITO Cor- Over the years the name ITO have to tell the customers that
mulated an ecologically-friendly poration has maintained a com- Corporation has become synony- there is no gas for one week. This
water treatment product that pany philosophy of conserving mous with innovation in this seg- system will allow gas suppliers to
stops the growth of microorgan- a quality-first outlook, building ment, having pioneered the first avoid this scenario.”
O P I N ION
About a month after The Silence of veyed now believe there should be a said, “What can we, the new gen-
Others opened in Spanish theaters in change in the law, that perpetrators of erations, do to continue with your
November, screenings are continu- crimes against humanity during the struggle?” That gave us hope. Among
ing to sell out. (The film will come Franco era should be brought to jus- other things, it is evidence of a new
to U.S. theaters in spring 2019.) A tice; only 15 percent opposed this idea. willingness to enact justice before
short video based on the film has time runs out.
gone viral—viewed nearly 3 million
times. One Spanish magazine called → Almudena Carracedo and Robert
it “the most necessary documentary A pattern of child thefts, Bahar are the Emmy-winning directors
in 80 years.” Spain’s “stolen babies” of The Silence of Others, winner of 16
Ahead of the premiere, one of the
film’s production funders, the Ber-
scandal, had its roots film awards, including the Berlinale
Panorama Audience Award. It is nomi-
tha Foundation, provided support in Franco’s early nated for best European documentary
for a survey; it asked about attitudes eugenics theories. at the European Film Awards.
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THE GOP RELIED ON EVANGELICALS FOR DECADES. BUT WITH YOUNG PEOPLE LEAVING THE
LOSING
24
RE
CHURCH IN DROVES, A POLITICAL RECKONING IS AFOOT. MEET THE ‘EXVANGELICALS’
MY
ELIGION
DE C E M BE R 21, 2018
by NINA BURLEIGH
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F RO M L E F T: H U LTO N A RC H I V E /G E T T Y; JA B I N B OTS F O R D/ T H E WAS H I N GTO N P O ST/G E T T Y; H U LTO N A RC H I V E /G E T T Y
lex Camire left the out that the bomber was a white nationalist, he
church a few months didn’t apologize or even say anything,” Desautels
before his pastor recalls. “And the adults seemed to be all ine with
announced from the pulpit that the election of it. That planted the seed.”
Donald Trump was “a miracle of the Lord.” Later, as an Army infantryman in Iraq, Desautels,
The 29-year-old Connecticut social worker had now 39, moved further from the church. “I was in
been raised in the evangelical tradition; his parents the land of Father Abraham,” he says. “I had this
were married in it. But Camire’s faith had started weird spiritual moment when I realized that these
to fail a decade earlier when his church deemed his families had lived in this neighborhood for longer
mother’s alcoholism—and his parents’ subsequent than America had been a nation, and here we were
divorce—a sin. Later, a secular college education telling them what to do.” He cut ties completely
taught him that “the world”—the community out- with his church after his sister came out as gay and DEVIL'S BARGAIN
Clockwise from top:
side the church—wasn’t going to drag him into felt she had to apologize to their parents. Evangelist Billy Graham
a cesspool of sex and drugs, as he’d been taught Blake Chastain, 35, entered Indiana Wesleyan delivers a sermon in North
from childhood. His pastor’s outspoken support of University the week of 9/11, with hopes of gradu- Carolina 1962; Trump
speaks at a National Day
Trump convinced him he’d made the right decision. ating from the seminary. Instead, he began to fall of Prayer event in the Rose
Californian Jason Desautels similarly began to away from the church when he couldn’t reconcile Garden in 2017; Senator
doubt his faith as a teen. In the week after the Okla- what he was learning in Bible study with his profes- Goldwater, who warned
that if preachers got hold
homa City bombing, his church’s minister railed sor’s support for the Iraq War. “Conservative Chris- of the GOP, it would be “a
against “sand people” and Muslims. “When it came tianity,” he says, “was at odds with the teachings in terrible damn problem.”
the Bible.” He left and started writing and produc- And the cracks are already showing.
ing his own podcast. Its name: Exvangelical. In the 2018 midterms, exit polls showed, white
All three men are on the front lines of a growing evangelicals backed Republicans by 75 to 22 percent,
movement among millennials that is reshaping the while the rest of the voting population favored Dem-
evangelical church and the nation’s political land- ocrats 66 to 32 percent. But evangelicals were slightly
scape. Since the 1970s, white evangelicals have less likely to support House Republicans in 2018
formed the backbone of the Republican base. But as than they were to support Trump in 2016—which
younger members reject the vitriolic partisanship may have contributed to the Democrats’ pickup
of the Trump era and leave the church, that base is of House seats. Trump’s support actually declined
getting smaller and older. The numbers are stark: more among white evangelical men than women.
Twenty years ago, just 46 percent of white evangeli- The 11-point gender gap between evangelical men
cal Protestants were older than 50; now, 62 percent and women from 2016 shrank to 6 in the midterms.
are above 50. The median age of white evangelicals To be sure, evangelical Christians have been
is 55. Only 10 percent of Americans under 30 iden- rewarded for their support of Trump after endur-
tify as white evangelicals. The exodus of youth is so ing eight years wandering in Barack Obama’s
swift that demographers now predict that evangel- political desert. They have two new conservative
icals will likely cease being a major political force Supreme Court justices, and there have been
in presidential elections by 2024. nine self-professed evangelical Cabinet members,
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POL I T I C S
plus a lurry of laws and executive orders clamping evangelical-Republican partnership, they’ve kept
down on gender roles, abortion and LGBTQ rights. casting ballots. In 2016, they were a key group for
But experts say this may represent the last bounty Trump; the thrice-married, foul-mouthed mogul
for a waning political power. Unlike their parents, with a history of sexual assault allegations won
the younger generation is not animated by the more than 80 percent of the evangelical vote—
culture wars; many are pushing for social justice besting even George W. Bush, a born-again Chris-
for migrants and LGBTQ people and campaigning tian who spoke openly about his faith.
against mass incarceration—positions more in line But demographic trends are steadily diluting their
with the Democratic Party. outsize clout. Researcher Robert Jones, author of The
The result is a shrinking conservative bloc, some- End of White Christian America, has tracked what
thing that could weaken white Christian political he calls a “stair-steps downward trajectory of white
power—and, consequently, a Republican Party that Christian presence in the electorate.” In 1992, when
has staked its future on its alliance with the religious Bill Clinton was elected, 73 percent of the electorate
right. It’s a conundrum that the father of modern was white and Christian. By 2012, that number was
GOP conservatism, Barry Goldwater, predicted in 53 percent. “If current trends hold steady, 2024 will
1994: “Mark my word, if and when these preachers be a watershed year—the irst American election
KEEPING THE FAITH
get control of the party, and they’re sure trying to do in which white Christian voters do not constitute From top: Students
so, it’s going to be a terrible damn problem.” a majority of voters,” Jones, who heads the Public protest a California law
requiring anti-abortion
Religion Research Institute (PRRI), tells Newsweek.
pregnancy centers to
The End of the Alliance? Until a decade ago, white evangelicals were the provide information on
the asso Ciation of the religious right exception, their numbers holding steady. But their abortion; Members of
the First Baptist Church
and the Republican Party has its roots in the 1954 ranks are now dwindling, driven largely by the
of Luverne, Alabama;
Supreme Court ruling Brown vs. the Board of Edu- youth exodus. According to Jones, white evangel- Falwell Jr. speaking at
cation of Topeka, after which white Southerners icals constituted 21 percent of the U.S. population that year's Republican
National Convention.
began to flee public schools following forced when Obama was elected in 2008. Eight years later,
desegregation. They opened so-called segregation in 2016, that number dropped to 17 percent. Today,
academies: religious schools that were tax-exempt. they make up 15 percent of Americans.
When the IRS came after evangelical colleges like Concerned about the shrinking numbers and the
Bob Jones University, which oficially prohibited prospect of a lackluster turnout in the midterms,
interracial dating, the schools were faced with los- Trump rallied about 100 evangelical supporters in
ing their tax-exempt status. the White House this past summer. If Republicans
That would have meant financial doom. But a lose control of Congress, he told them, Democrats
Republican activist named Paul Weyrich—with “will overturn everything that we’ve done, and they’ll
patronage from Western segregationist beer billion- do it quickly and violently.” He pushed pastors to
aire Joseph Coors—forged alliances with Southern use the power of their pulpits to get more people to
religious leaders like Jerry Falwell and successfully the polls. “I hate to say it,” Trump said, “if you were a
lobbied to soften IRS enforcement. The Moral Major- stock, you’d be, like, you’re very plateaued.”
ity was born, and, in 1980, it announced itself as a White evangelical political organizers got the
political force by helping put Ronald Reagan in the message. Ralph Reed’s Faith & Freedom Coalition
White House. Republican strategists used the issues of pledged to spend $18 million to microtarget 125
abortion and gay marriage to cement the union and million conservative voters before the midterms.
drive right-leaning Christians into the voting booth. Other faith groups engaged in a get-out-the-vote
The relationship remained strong for decades, drive across the country. An organization associated
with evangelicals becoming a reliable bloc of with former Arkansas Governor (and Baptist pastor)
GOP support. Since 2000, they have regularly Mike Huckabee, called My Faith Votes, spent $3.5
made up about a quarter of voters—outper- million aimed at getting evangelicals to the mid-
forming their much smaller percentage of the terms polls and threw in a Facebook Live session
population. And, despite prognostications from with Duck Dynasty’s Phil Robertson for good mea-
political scientists about the imminent death of the sure. The Colorado-based Dr. James Dobson Family
Disaffected Youth
to understand what ’s happening among
evangelicals, researchers study the results of PRRI’s
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Ed Stetzer, a political scientist and pastor based at evangelicals, my message is typically ‘Seek first the
Wheaton College, knows all about the predictions of kingdom of God. Political idolatry will kill us. Let’s
researchers like Jones, and he is aware of the views remember what is transcendently important.’ But
of young people. But he sees evangelical youth attri- when I talk to younger evangelicals, I am dealing
tion as a kind of demographic sowing of wild oats, with the opposite problem and saying one cannot
in which the young are predictably disaffected—but simply withdraw from political life in overreaction
only temporarily. He is sure they will return to the to some dispiriting actions that have taken place.”
fold when they are a little older. His name for the Evangelical youth are not susceptible to the
phenomenon is “generational cohort replacement.” “Make America great again” slogan, Moore says,
Stetzer says the young who move away from the because they’ve never lived in an America in which
fold essentially replace themselves in the church as their brand of fervent Christianity was ascendant.
an older, and more likely to vote, category. “The 18- “Young evangelicals do not feel as if they are losing
to 29-year-olds are really secular now,” he says. “But anything in terms of American culture,” he says.
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THE
PLEASURE
This year’s BEST PERFORMANCES provided large helpings of
h u m o r , h o p e a n d h u m a n i t y, j u s t w h e n w e n e e d e d t h e m m o s t
P R I N C I PA L S
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N o good roles for minorities and women?
This year put a signiicant dent in that maxim.
Our list of the best performances is as diverse—in race, gender,
age—as any in memory. In a fraught year, these artists provided
catharsis, vicarious diversion and (this being entertainment)
B RYA N
CRANSTON
NETWORK ON BROADWAY
deep pleasure. You can ind nearly all of the performances on There’s a scene in the Broadway
streaming platforms or in theaters. The holidays are the perfect stage adaptation of the 1976 ilm
time to catch up—for amusement, naturally, but also to prepare Network that should be required
for the awards season, an onslaught currently in progress. With- RICHARD MADDEN viewing for every acting student:
out further ado, our 31 reasons to celebrate in 2018. when Bryan Cranston’s mentally
BODYGUARD ( Netflix )
unraveling news anchor Howard
→ FILM → TELEVISION → THEATER → VIDEO Whether you binged the Beale builds to his mad-as-hell mo-
six-part series because you’d ment—a transformation that segues
heard it was the biggest hit from baflement to avenging angel
drama in the U.K. in a decade
or because the title’s body- in ive or so minutes. But there’s a
guard, David Budd, is played little of everything in Cranston’s
by Game of Thrones’s Robb Beale, a role that allows the actor
Stark (or, rather, the actor who to showcase his ambidextrous gift
played him), you were treated for comedy and drama (the former
to a tension-packed tale of
political corruption. Richard showcased on the sitcom Malcolm
Madden makes the most of in the Middle; the latter on Breaking
Budd, a sketchily drawn mili- Bad, for which he won four Emmys).
tary vet turned secret service The key here, says the actor, is
agent; it’s easy to overplay vulnerability. “You have to be will-
trauma and stress, but the
actor handles the role artfully— ing to show it. The truth is, when
and relentlessly. —MKS vulnerability is shown, you’re only
in danger of humiliation if you’re
in middle school or high school. A
Tessa Thompson & YALITZA APARICIO decent person—and most people
Lakeith Stanfield ROMA
are decent—wants to protect you.”
If there’s a downside to such a titan-
The New York Film Critics ic performance, it’s that you mourn
SORRY TO BOTHER YOU
Circle has already bestowed every second he’s not onstage. —AM
best director and ilm on
The talented and busy Ms. Tessa Thompson Oscar-winner Alfonso Cua-
ron’s moving memory piece,
co-starred in the sci-fi movie Annihilation and get ready for more awards
and was back for Season 2 of Westworld and to rain down. The story, set
in Mexico City in the ’70s,
another round playing Michael B. Jordan’s centers on Cleo, an indigenous
baby mama in Creed 2; Lakeith Stanfield maid (based on Cuaron’s
returned as the stoned heart of Atlanta in childhood nanny) working for
an upper-middle-class family
the show’s outstanding second season. But as they—and the city—im-
in Boots Riley’s dystopian satire—a surreal plode. Yalitza Aparicio, 24, is
a nonprofessional actress
evisceration of racism and economic (she teaches preschool), and
inequality—Thompson’s luminous humanity perhaps that accounts for
provides the perfect setting for Stanfield’s the astonishing naturalism of
her performance. Then again,
trippy cartoonishness. Together, they create a such shimmering soulfulness
beautiful perversion. —Mary Kaye Schilling can’t be taught. —ANNA MENTA
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Rachel
Brosnahan
THE MARVELOUS
MRS. MAISEL
( Amazon Prime )
BILL HADER
BARRY ( HBO )
The Saturday Night Live grad won this year’s Emmy for best actor playing Barry
Berkman, an Afghanistan vet turned hit man. Bill Hader co-created the comedy with
Alec Berg, and he muscled up and deepened his voice to transform himself into the
title character. But that’s just icing: What makes Barry, and the series, irresistible is
the actor’s ability to pull off two opposing tones: the daffy and the truly dark. —MKS
Melissa McCarthy
Letitia Wright
BLACK PANTHER
Julia Roberts
& Stephan James Jameela Jamil
THE GOOD PLACE (NBC)
HOMECOMING (Amazon Prime)
HASAN MINHAJ There isn’t a weak link in Mike
Shur’s perfectly cast sitcom
about the afterlife, but one
PATRIOT ACT (Netflix) Both actors have delivered outstanding of the show’s particular plea-
You can see the DNA of fellow performances apart (Julia Roberts in the sures is watching the face of
former Daily Show corre- film Ben Is Back, Stephan James in If Beale Jameela Jamil’s British so-
spondents John Oliver and cialite, Tahani al-Jamil. If her
Street Could Talk), but their chemistry in Sam passive-aggressive insults
Samantha Bee in this latest
comedy news show, while Esmail’s Amazon mystery—adapted from and insufferable name-drop-
ping weren’t so hilarious, we’d
also noting how it’s shattering a popular podcast—is notable: a poignant
the late-night political com- happily watch an episode
edy mold: The pacing comic flirtation between a middle-aged white devoted to her silent reac-
Hasan Minhaj eliminates caseworker and her young, black military vet tions: imperious complacency,
the desk-couch setup in snooty repugnance and ex-
patient that felt uniquely post-racial. Roberts treme baflement. Her impec-
favor of a diamond-shaped
stage before a phalanx of is aging into a more interesting actress—one cable comic timing implied
screens. (“Like Michael years of TV credits, but the
who uses rather than overuses that blinding
Bay directed a PowerPoint 32-year-old, London-raised
presentation,” he joked in smile—and James is a powerhouse in the Jamil had never acted before
the irst episode.) But it’s making. Here, they generate lonely warmth casting director Allison Jones
the POV that’s truly radical— discovered her; her expe-
in Esmail’s cold, sinister universe. —MKS rience had been limited to
that of an Indian-American
and Muslim who speaks hosting morning TV and radio
to every American. —AM shows. “I lied to Allison and
said I had stage experience,”
says Jamil. “I was referring to
my 9-year-old self playing
CHILDISH GAMBINO Titania in A Midsummer
& HIRO MURAI Night’s Dream.” In lieu of act-
ing lessons, Jamil’s strategy
“THIS IS AMERICA” was to copy “absolutely ev-
erything” co-star Ted Danson
Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in does, she says. “When we’re
the U.S.A.” was once miscon- running away from a sinkhole
strued by Reagan America as in [Season 1] Episode 5, I
a lag-waving patriotic anthem. looked at Ted, saw what his
Childish Gambino’s deeply face was doing and copied
cynical and violent “This Is that.” There are worse ways
America”—in which the artist to learn. Jamil drew from
strikes a Jim Crow–era stance real-life inspiration as well. “I
while shooting a black man—is used to DJ high-fashion par-
not likely to suffer the same ties and met a lot of Tahanis,”
fate. Gambino is the alter ego she says. “There was one in
of Donald Glover, who, with particular, and she deinitely
director Murai, creates FX’s knows because she unfriend-
Atlanta. The video is, all at ed me on Facebook.” Taking a
once, an acerbic meditation on cue from her character, Jamil
gun violence, a choreographed adds, “I’m not sorry!” —AM
dance homage and an unset-
tling entry in the Afro-surre-
alism movement (see: Boots
Riley’s Sorry to Bother You
and, of course, Atlanta). —ZS
JOHN
LEGUIZAMO
LATIN HISTORY FOR MORONS
( Netflix )
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SANDRA OH &
JODIE COMER
KILLING EVE ( BBC America )
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Christian Bale
Regina King
VICE
IF BEALE STREET
COULD TALK
With its satirical grip
on semi-recent tragedy, Regina King will lead HBO’s
upcoming adaptation of
Adam McKay’s balls-out Watchmen by D.C. Comics, but
follow-up to The Big Short she’s been a superhero of act-
ing for some time. She’s best
is likely to divide critics as known for her TV work (Seven
sharply as George W. Bush’s Seconds, The Leftovers, Amer-
administration divided the ican Crime), so it’s good to see
this indomitable actress show-
country, but Christian Bale cased in a feature—Barry Jen-
won’t regret saying yes to kins’s emotionally transixing
adaptation of the 1974 James
gaining 40 pounds and Baldwin novel. As the mother
donning a bald cap to play to one of two young lovers torn
Dick Cheney. The actor nails apart by racist policies, King
embodies the ilm’s dignity and
the former veep’s physical resilience in the face of tragedy,
mannerisms—the clenched and provides it with its most
shattering moment.—MKS
jaw, the percussive grunt—
and serves as an able
interpreter of the staid D.C.
lifer’s relentless drive and
puzzling rise to power. —ZS
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Horizons SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY + HEALTH
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CLIMATE CHANGE
Trumped-Up
Charges
Julia Olsen is suing the U.S. over climate change.
Her plaintifs are mostly children
BY
late November a Trump administra-
NINA GODLEWSKI tion appeal to pause the case, pending
@ninagodlewski review by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of
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public school systems. They weren’t
challenging one act; it was many dif-
ferent things. And the court looked
Appeals. Newsweek spoke with Olsen grassroots environmental organiza- at “Is this system constitutional?” and
as she was awaiting a trial date. tions. In the early 2000s, I brought one found that it wasn’t.
of the first cases under the National The Juliana plaintiffs are challeng-
Have you changed your approach Environmental Policy Act and the ing the fossil fuel energy system that
since iling the suit in 2015? Clean Air Act that forced government the government continues to perpet-
What has changed is the Trump agencies to address climate change uate, support and facilitate.
administration continues to double in their environmental impact state-
down on fossil fuels as the core com- ments. It was about a couple of power Is your goal to win the case or
ponent of our energy system, advanc- plants being built in Mexico for the change the system?
ing efforts to lock in fossil fuels as purpose of providing energy to the U.S. Oh, it is absolutely to win. I’m a litiga-
our source of energy. The other thing That was the moment I began thinking tor. I’m not an organizer.
that’s different is how the Depart- these project-by-project cases, where
ment of Justice has conducted itself Why is this case important?
in the litigation. They continue to file The matter pending before the
motions for stays and petitions for Supreme Court is about the Con-
review to the appellate courts before stitution and climate change and
the trial court has an opportunity to whether these young people can go
make important decisions in the case. “The Department to trial. But it’s also about our democ-
They’ve gone to great lengths to avoid
going to trial in a way I’ve never seen of Justice has gone racy and civic engagement, and these
young people saying, “We’re harmed,
before in litigation. to great lengths to and we deserve a right to be heard.”
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P A R T ING SHOT
Saoirse Ronan
The 24-year-old IrIsh acTress doesn’T jusT resemble meryl sTreep; Mary is presented as a strategic
she appears to be echoing her career, juggling accents and racking up thinker and leader, which is very
Oscar nominations. There are three so far: for 2007’s Atonement, 2015’s Brook- different from previous ilms.
lyn and 2017’s Lady Bird (she won a Golden Globe for the latter). In her latest She’s been painted as this very
ilm, Mary Queen of Scots—written by House of Cards creator Beau Willimon— emotional girl whose Catholicism
Ronan plays the doomed queen, beheaded by her cousin, Elizabeth I (played informed every decision she made.
by Margot Robbie), in 1587. The movie is based on historian John Guy’s radical According to John Guy, that wasn’t
reinterpretation of Mary’s life, My Heart Is My Own, and Ronan plays her as a really the case. She was Catholic, and
strategic, armor-wearing warrior rather than a lighty beauty buffeted by fate. she practiced Catholicism at a time
Despite years of correspondence with Elizabeth, the two never met, though the when Scotland was newly reformed—
ilm—which has a distinctly feminist slant—imagines such a scene. “They wrote Protestantism had taken over—but
letters to each other and arranged to meet many times,” says Ronan. “But the men she used religion to her advantage.
around them knew it would harm their own chances of gaining power if these It was a way to present herself as a
two got together—for good reason. They probably would have joined forces.” martyr, to gain some sway, I guess,
which I thought was really clever.
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Tinalbarka wants to be a lawyer.
She and her family fled violence in Mali.
We stand together
#WithRefugees
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www.refugeeday.org
Elegance is an attitude
Kate Winslet
Record collection