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It’s Time to Reconsider Graduation Prayer in Public High Schools

By Bruce Ledewitz

…xpression of meaning possible in American life, which is tantamount to the promotion of a kind of radical individualism. We are supposed to be a political community. Community requires some kind of creed—though not of course necessarily a religious creed. Silence is no substitute for communal expression, but some devotees of separation seem to feel that any communal expression of meaning is too close to religion to be permitted to the government….

Will Minnesota Voters Be on the Right Side of History?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…l, his voice choked with emotion, recalled a Minnesota soldier who died in Afghanistan earlier this year, Corporal Andrew Wilfahrt, who was gay. “He was gay. He was gay. How can I tell his family that Corporal Wilfahrt was good enough to fight and die for his country, but he’s not good enough to marry someone he loves. I can’t do that!” He begged his fellow lawmakers to vote against the amendment and “stand up for freedom.” He said one day he woul…

Why 9/11 Changed Everything Nothing

By Paul Harvey

…the rapid victory (akin to the same national feeling after the invasion of Afghanistan, and again after the invasion of Iraq and rapid toppling of Saddam Hussein’s regime) stressed war’s redeeming qualities for recapturing a national elan threatened by twins of industrialization and immigration, and the bitter social conflicts that arose from them. Those who decried this round of foreign adventurism, most notably Mark Twain, lambasted the hypocris…

American Indians Irate over Bin Laden Code Name “Geronimo”

By Johnny P. Flynn

…metaphor “Indians Are Enemies” to “Geronimo was a Terrorist,” thus perpetuating the US tradition of treating Indian nations and peoples as enemies. Maybe if the lessons of the Indian wars had been pondered before the misdirected invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq countless lives and riches could have been saved. The lesson of Geronimo was one of patience, stealth, and striking when the time is right; which are exactly the virtues exhibited during…

Bin Laden’s Death Does Not Prove that Torture Works

By Sarah Sentilles

…enge for 9/11; bin Laden’s killing made the deaths of soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan worthwhile; bin Laden’s killing proves torture works. Justice was served, people said, which is just a fancy, tricky, misleading way of saying “we got you back.” But justice and revenge are not the same thing. When I teach in college classrooms about torture, some of my students who support US-sanctioned torture justify their position by insisting that torturing…

No Fireworks, Only Candles: Our Work as Americans and Muslims

By Ayesha Mattu

…p, filled with sadness for those who have died in America, Pakistan, Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere, and apprehension at the terrorism-related deaths to come. Our work as Americans and Muslims is far from done. The next morning, all I want to do is read news articles and listen to NPR, but the baby is grouchy, refusing food and wanting to be held. The more he grabs at my legs, the more irritated I become. Aggrieved, I take him to the other room…

6 Reservations About U.S. Intervention in Libya

By Haroon Moghul

…tell us why you got us into another war before we’re even out of Iraq and Afghanistan? 2) I am rightly made uneasy by conflicts with no obvious goal. The United States, like every other institutional body that has interests in the region, is deeply confused, and trying to hide that. Only a few months ago, our Vice President was denying that Mubarak was a dictator. Now our government is arguing that we must intervene to get rid of a tyrant in th…

Pox Americana: Franzen’s Tragic Vision

By Peter Laarman

…Freedom” (in which US service members continue to be killed and maimed in Afghanistan for no clear or compelling purpose). In 2003 Brooks found the anti-war slogan “No Blood for Oil!” not at all to his taste: to him that chant was simplistic, jejune, etc. Yet in the bigger picture, how can anyone now fail to see how these interminable wars are in fact very much about oil—and thus also about our accelerating environmental apocalypse? There is noth…

Not All Choice is Free

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…h penalty provisions? Why no such tax withholding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? And why is the state bending over backwards to accommodate these religious sentiments about contraception, rather than some others? One explanation might be historical: what a difference a generation makes. After thirty years of hammering away at the need for the secular state to accommodate religious objections to virtually every damn thing it does, the state…

Can a Progressive Atheist Defeat the Democrats’ “Family” Man in NC?

By Sarah Jaffe

…stake out positions on several issues, including a position on the war in Afghanistan that was actually to his challenger’s left. While 2010 was a year of surging conservatives and depressed progressives, it’s not yet clear what 2012 will bring. The only message in the losses of both Sestak and Halter is that Democrats in swing areas were swept out in 2010 whether progressive or not. Shuler’s Blue Dog caucus lost 24 of its 58 House seats in 2010,…