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Promise Keepers 2.0: Women and Jews Invited

By J. Terry Todd

…n between the rich and poor didn’t play prominently, either in the event’s promos or at the stadium rally itself. PK did offer a “pay what you can afford” program to woo low-income rally-goers, and it also urged attendees to bring food donations for the Denver Rescue Mission. At the rally itself, there was no sustained talk about the spiritual or political effects of the global financial crisis, but there was a call to support something called the…

How the Catholic Church Changed the Movies

By Patricia Miller

…llywood Censored. The code they designed became the Motion Picture Conduct Code, popularly know as the Hays Code after it was adopted by William Hays, a Presbyterian elder who was hired by the major studios to help clean up the industry’s image after it was rocked by a series of scandals. The code, says Black, “was a fascinating combination of Catholic theology, conservative politics and pop psychology—an amalgam that would control the content of…

Op-Ed: God’s Will in Iraq: Sarah Palin and America’s Global Mission

By Joel Schalit

…, even if, as was almost always the case, the Americans had no interest in promoting any kind of freedoms at all. In Palin’s case, what we have is a break from this rhetoric altogether. In relation to the war in Iraq, all she did was explain what it means to her as a Christian, and why she thinks the conflict is theologically justified. That’s what is most frightening about her statement: It is not just that she is provincial, but that she doesn’t…

The Passion of Katniss: How the Hunger Games Confronts the Trauma of Violence

By Michael Schulson

…e of social and community values in pictures.” For the next 38 years, that code shaped Hollywood’s output. The Production Code insisted that movies were primarily “to be regarded as entertainment” that would “improve the race.” As such, movies should avoid explicit images that would be upsetting or play to “the lower and base element.” Those images included graphic violence, “excessive passion,” “white-slavery,” “scenes of actual child birth,” and…

Is ISIS Islamic? Is it a State?

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…, where they were well entrenched, to the Sunni dominated areas of western Iraq, even conquering Iraq’s second largest city, Mosul, which it plundered for its wealth and military armament. It’s fair to describe ISIS as a terrorist regime, since it uses extreme acts of violence to intimidate both its enemies and its own population. The savage beheadings of Western journalists and aid workers that were posted on the Internet were matched by dozens,…

Hillary Flirting with Fear

By Ira Chernus

…to that war.” But he notes that: Polls show that the economy has overtaken Iraq as the public’s biggest concern. True, the news from Iraq will probably turn worse again. Meanwhile, a hefty majority of voters continue to say that the war was a mistake, and people are as angry as ever about the $10 billion a month wasted on the neo-cons’ folly. Yet for the time being, public optimism about Iraq is rising: 53 percent of the public believes that the U…

The Intellectual Source Code For National Conservatism Can Be Found at This Niche Catholic Publication

By Peter Schwartz

…cultural conservatism in the United States. The foundation of this source code (the motherlode of the code, as it were) is Catholic natural law moral philosophy. Natural law is the 800-year-old Thomist tradition that absorbs (from revelation and scripture) and communicates (into public discourse and legal practice) a quite specific understanding of the human individual as the summit of God’s creation. First Things has hosted some of the most impo…

The Garden of Eden: A Dull Place? Paradise Lust Author Explains…

By Nathan Schneider

…were lots of mentions of the Garden of Eden during the early years of the Iraq War. It would come up as a mournful, ironic sidenote in otherwise brutally depressing reporting. “This place, which is according to legend, the Garden of Eden, now looks like hell,” and the like. Which I always felt to be kind of unfair. Yes, the Garden of Eden story in the Bible is thought by most legitimate scholars to originate in much earlier Mesopotamian legend, w…

“Future of Babylon” Project Preserves History to Some, Ushers in “End Times” to Others

By Bill Berkowitz

…tary arguably assumed the major responsibility for maintaining security in Iraq. While thousands of U.S. trainers and advisors will remain in place, “many Iraqi troops will indeed be on their own,” the New York Times’ Rod Nordland recently reported. While many Iraqis will be applauding the pullback of U.S. troops, some observers question whether the Iraqi military is up to the task—especially considering the recent up tick in violence. Meanwhile I…

Tweeting ISIS Attacks: A Lesson in Not Learning a Lesson

By Haroon Moghul

…om the task at hand. The war in Afghanistan was about al-Qaeda. The war in Iraq was not. The former effort suffered because the latter proceeded. The French rejected the Iraq war, and have been attacked by an ISIL that emerged in great part due to that war. But, of course, the Iraqis had nothing to do with al-Qaeda, and were invaded too. Some ten years ago, Western forces ranged the length and breadth of a Middle Eastern country, and today forces…