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Our Failure To Understand Ferguson: A Cognitive Explanation

By Andrew Aghapour

…ue wasn’t the kind of thing that we could call a “motherfucker.” It was incapable of the act—too abstract to be blamed or cursed. Recent findings in cognitive psychology indicate that we blame at an individual level, using mental systems adapted for life in small groups. It is psychologically difficult to blame large, abstract entities—like government agencies or corporations—in a meaningful or satisfactory way. Ideologies and conspiracy theories…

An Open Letter to CEO Jeff Smisek On United Airlines’ Blasphemous Safety Video

By Austin Dacey

…ed, you may be relieved to know. Perhaps you would agree that in the final analysis, such things are of no concern. No, Mr. Smisek, this message is not the grievance of a disgruntled customer. It is a witness to an abomination. It is a plea for spiritual recompense. In the video message that was played before my last United Airlines flight, you expressed your desire to greet each and every passenger; you invited us to sit back, relax, and enjoy th…

Pricey Tickets, Cranky Citizens, and Priests Behind Bars as Philadelphia Prepares For Papal Visit

By Anthea Butler

…With each twist and turn over the long hot summer in the planning for the papal visit, Philadelphia’s citizens have become restless, and their ire has been focused on Mayor Nutter and the Secret Service. In a hastily put together meeting last week, Donna Crilley Farrell, the executive director of the World Meeting of Families (WMOF) announced that the papal events were going to be ticketed—after having already promoted the Papal visit as “free and…

Netanyahu’s Speech, Lane’s Trip, and the Impossibility of Boycotts

By Sarah Posner

…peech on March 3? Why didn’t Republican National Committee members boycott a trip to Israel hosted by the American Renewal Project and paid for by the American Family Association? Let’s recap: two left-leaning watchdog groups called on members of the Republican National Committee to forego the trip to Israel. Not surprisingly, RNC members did not much care what People for the American Way or the Southern Poverty Law Center think of the AFA, the Am…

The Key to Understanding the Federalist Society Isn’t Originalism — It’s This 800-Year Old Tradition

By Peter Schwartz

…y, when confronted with tangible illustrations of this counter-Reformation insurgency: “Doesn’t look like anything to me.” But the intellectual roots of conservative culture-war Catholicism are theological and medieval, the product of a cosmology organized around hierarchy, inequality, authority and power, with commitments and anchors to traditions and values that aren’t confined—and are in many instances opposed—to liberal democratic traditions a…

Atheist Nazis? The Pope’s Cheap Atonement

By Susannah Heschel

…accept Christian responsibility for the Holocaust, blaming it instead on pagans and atheists. Given that Cardinal Walter Kasper, on the eve of the Pope’s visit, called Britain a third-world country full of atheists, one wonders if the Vatican is displacing Nazism or anticipating a new outbreak in the country that gave the world political liberalism. Each pope since Nostra Aetate, passed by the Second Vatican Council, has piously reiterated that c…

Palin’s Israel Trip

By Sarah Posner

…d guests David Corn and Eugene Robinson, for focusing too much on whether Sarah Palin is seeking to appeal to Christian Zionists rather than the American Jewish establishment with her trip to Israel. Weiss: This is not about evangelical Christians, this is about raising Jewish money, as honest Republican David Frum instructed us the other day. None of these three Dems speaks to the power of the Israel lobby inside Democratic Party life, which caus…

Glenn Beck’s Cheap Grace

By Karyn Carlo

…up the lowly; He has filled the hungry with good things, and sent the rich away empty.” This same Jesus tells us in Matthew 19:24 that “it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.” Similarly, the early Christian community is described in Acts 4:34-35 like this: “There was not a needy person among them, for as many as owned lands or houses sold them and brought the proceeds of…

The Contested Religious Powers of Baseball on Display in Cuba

By Sean O'Neil

…this week, and in the wake of a terrorist attack in Brussels, President Obama sat in a Havana stadium extolling the sacred power of baseball to a trio of ESPN commentators: I did not play a lot of baseball as a kid; I was more of a basketball player, but there is something about baseball that is so fundamentally woven into our culture. And in some ways, at a time in our lives where everything is a mile a minute and kids are on their phone all the…

Mile-High Identity Politics: What We Can Learn From the Same-Sex Seating Controversy

By Eboo Patel

…favored. Each category includes large groups of people who tend to convene around certain symbols, ideas and issues. But preferring some identities ought not be done in such a manner that other clearly important categories are ignored or marginalized, namely religion. If the fundamental logic of cultural progressivism is that people get to choose the identity that matters to them and assign whatever meaning they see fit, then disqualifying religio…