Tyler Huckabee

1 week ago | sojo.net | Tyler Huckabee

James Baldwin tells us that “ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.” One proof of Baldwin’s theory is that many Americans believe that the Bible is skeptical of social justice, or even outright hostile to it. You can see this in how many Americans criticize poor people with lines like “God helps those who helps themselves” — a quote that does not appear anywhere in the Bible.

2 weeks ago | sojo.net | Tyler Huckabee

Shortly after the release of 1982’s Nebraska, Bruce Springsteen was in a bad place. He did not like being famous, did not like the pressure of celebrity. He’d dreamed of being a rock star, but this was something else entirely. People were calling him the voice of a generation, the balladeer of America’s soul, and he felt this was putting an untenable distance between him and his art.

2 weeks ago | sojo.net | Tyler Huckabee

This interview is part of The Reconstruct, a weekly newsletter from Sojourners. In a world where so much needs to change, Mitchell Atencio and Josiah R. Daniels interview people who have faith in a new future and are working toward repair. Subscribe here. After the COVID-19 pandemic, I started paying more attention to what I was wearing. It had been a year of sweatpants and T-shirts, and I was ready to switch things up to be presentable for the outside world.

3 weeks ago | portside.org | Tyler Huckabee

‘Andor’: The ‘Star Wars’ Show That Knows What Fascism Really Looks Like Published May 11, 2025 In 2018, blockbuster guru James Cameron hosted a fascinating conversation with Star Wars creator George Lucas. While discussing the original trilogy for Cameron’s Story of Science Fiction series, the conversation turned to war and resistance. Cameron observes that the Rebel Alliance is not playing by any accepted mainstream definition of heroism. CAMERON: The good guys are the rebels.

1 month ago | sojo.net | Tyler Huckabee

In 2018, blockbuster guru James Cameron hosted a fascinating conversation with Star Wars creator George Lucas. While discussing the original trilogy for Cameron’s Story of Science Fiction series, the conversation turned to war and resistance. Cameron observes that the Rebel Alliance is not playing by any accepted mainstream definition of heroism. CAMERON: The good guys are the rebels. They’re using asymmetric warfare against a highly organized empire.