Tags: ptsd
Spinning Ft. Hood

Hussein Rashid.

RD associate editor Hussein Rashid scrutinizes a cross-section of reactions to the Ft. Hood massacre, from those eager to blame Islam to a number of Muslim-Americans. 

Double Helix: Religion Requires Memory; Memory-Killing Drugs Inspire Big Questions

Arri Eisen.

A host of experimental new drugs interfere with the process of creating memory, promising to help combat sufferers, addicts and others. But if memory is required for the creation of ethics (and religion) and indeed in the formation of who we are, what effect might these drugs have on our identities?