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Who Benefits From Standardized Universal Time? And Other Questions to Ask As You Set Your Clocks Back This Weekend

By Michael Schulson

…a strange knack for becoming invisible. Here’s the anthropologist David Graeber, talking about the capitalist market, but in language that could apply to time: The central claim of those who celebrated postmodernism is that we have entered a world in which all totalizing systems—science, humanity, nation, truth, and so forth—have all been shattered…The neoliberals on the other hand are singing the praises of a global market that is, in fact, the…

A Brief History of Olympic Flames

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…asted for more than a millennium, recurring almost without interruption on each Olympiad at the same spot. The Games were always taken to be religious (of the pagan sort, naturally). So it was that Christians, shortly after taking power definitively in the Roman Empire in 380 CE, saw fit to close the Olympic sanctuary and thus to end the Games (accomplished by the Edict of Theodosius in 393 CE). And then, amazingly, after a 1500-year hiatus, the O…

Dilemmas of American Empire: Can Obama Pull Off a Game-Changer in Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan?

By Gary Dorrien

…e greatest danger. “We hate you because you are occupiers, but we hate al Qaeda worse, and we hate the Persians even more.” From March 2005 to April 2007 the eruption of a civil war (in the midst of an already ferocious insurgent war) in Iraq produced huge numbers of weekly attacks and casualties, averaging 2,000 attacks per month. The numbers then dropped dramatically as ethnic cleansing was completed in many areas, the “surge” of U.S. forces res…

Religion at Decade’s End

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…smatic and media talents, but also as a pope with some jarring and nearly reactionary theological attitudes. It is worth reflecting on the symbolic significance of the fact that all three of these men have since passed on, and that the movements they left behind are currently trying to re-think what they should become one generation later. The times they are a changin’. It was not long before scholars of religion—most notably Bruce Lawrence (in…

A Response to Hussein Rashid

By Amjad Mahmood Khan

…merican Muslim organizations from taking to the streets with a message of peace, loyalty and moderation. Such a unifying message transcends diversity within Muslim America. Third, Professor Rashid contends that the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community should be more sensitive to the way Muslims are being portrayed as a community. Professor Rashid completely ignores the “Muslims For Peace” campaign currently underway by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. The ve…

The Roots of the American Right’s Muslim Brotherhood Panic

By Sarah Posner

…rican community. They shouldn’t be, any more than the president should be reaching out to them and utilizing them, I should say, as his go-to people. Gaffney’s claim that “in fact, any Muslim American organization in this country of any prominence is a Muslim Brotherhood front” is a complete lie. This, too, comes out of the Holy Land Foundation trial — in which the U.S. government charged the Holy Land Foundation with funneling money to Hamas — du…

On Women’s Equality Day, Going Back to the Sacred Texts of Feminism

By Betty M. Bayer

…which directly address the church and (mis)interpretation of scriptures. Reacting to church opposition to the many causes that she championed, Stanton once wrote, “No reform has ever been started but the Bible, falsely interpreted, has opposed it.” Stanton’s The Woman’s Bible was a bestseller. Undertaken initially as a commission of academic and church women to revisit those parts of the Bible where women were either omitted or presented in troub…

Netanyahu Patriarch Dies at 102, Leaves Hawkish Legacy

By Shalom Goldman

…n, the Prime Minister of Israel, and the father of Israel’s hero of the Entebbe raid, Yonatan Netanyahu, he was also a distinguished historian and leader in his own right. This is a loss for all of Israel and for all who care about Israel. And thus the news Monday of the elder Netanyahu’s death was quickly folded into the US presidential campaign. Recently, Mitt Romney has been referring to the Israeli Prime Minister as ‘my friend,’ and invoking…

When the Science Guy Misses the Politics

By Sarah Posner

…ould be exploited in the public sphere for the purpose of undermining the teaching and practice of science and ensuring that public policy is dictated by a “biblical worldview,” rather than one that is “unbiblical,” i.e., evolution, or church-state separation. The issue is not whether people “enjoy” their faith, but that there are powerful political alliances in the United States, of which Ham is a part, whose participants believe every word in th…

Publisher Withdraws History of Hinduism, Amid Protest

By Laurie Patton

…law that was written in the colonial era and enforced by the British. The reaction of the public has been swift and furious. Arundhati Roy has weighed in, as has the National Book Critics Circle. Several editorials in both the United States and India, including the New York Times, The Hindu, and The Telegraph, have appeared criticizing both the press’ decision and the law that generated the complaint. A petition also has been circulating with over…