Paul Buhle
Contributor
Spring 2004
Is it time to dump the idea of third-party socialism and concentrate on making the Democratic Party a de facto socialist party?
July 15, 2026
Robin Hood Redux, or What Happened to Friar Tuck?
The story of Robin Hood is, at heart, a religious and folkloric saga about both class and nature. This year's The Death of Robin Hood is a dark retelling that excludes the joyous, authority-defying figure of Friar Tuck.
March 6, 2025
Religion Against Socialism
The Gospel of Church: How Mainline Protestants Vilified Christian Socialism and Fractured the Labor Movement, by Janine Giordano Drake. Oxford University Press, 2023. The scholarly study of Christian Socialism and Christian anti-socialism, going back only a few generations, has too often been about the ideas and lives of a few leading figures.
October 30, 2024
Gustavo Gutiérrez, O.P., June 8, 1928 to October 22, 2024: Recalling the Legacy of Liberation Theology
Gutiérrez, who died at the age of 96, wrote that God commands followers to their true task—a preferential commitment to the poor.
October 12, 2024
Indigenous Peoples Day: Remembering the Story, Working Toward Reparations
Paul Peart-Smith adapts Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz's New York Times best-seller into a graphic novel.
February 22, 2023
Revolution in the Ranks: Episcopalians and Social Activism
Ten years in the making, this history details the remarkable evolution of an “Establishment Church” over the course of nearly three generations. Many history volumes can rightly claim to be comprehensive, many likewise to be well-written, but relatively few are truly thoughtful. Privilege and Prophecy: Social Activism in the Post-War Episcopal Church, by Robert Tobin, a
November 1, 2022
Christianity, Empire, and Authoritarianism
Preview Religion and Socialism member Paul Buhle's graphic novel Ideas Can Be Weapons: George L. Mosse on the Puritan Tradition From Revolution to Empire