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On Pi Day, Puzzling Over the Most Famous Transcendental Number

By Ilana E. Strauss

…Physicsworld.com user asks, “What could be more mystical than an imaginary number interacting with real numbers to produce nothing?” Where infinity merges with the earth When you dig into pi, you encounter questions that are as much theological as mathematical: is there a pattern to the universe? Or is it fundamentally random? And how do we reckon with the infinite? Some people have always insisted that there must be a pattern behind pi. If only h…

The March for Life: Grassroots Movement or Agitprop?

By Patricia Miller

…for Life President Jeanne Mancini told the Times: I don’t think that these numbers are the most important. The number most important for us is 58 million, which is the number of Americans that have been lost to abortion. But either they have the numbers or they don’t. And if they don’t, maybe the media should take a hard look at how it covers a predictable, lightly attended act of agitprop which claims to represent hundreds of thousands of people…

You Gotta Have Heart: A Response to Critics of “Why I’m Not an Organ Donor”

By Kristel Clayville

…No. There will be a new kind of scarcity created to create demand and high prices. To me, that means that working to change the conversation about who has access to organs now is central to any ethical discussion. I think the more trenchant criticism, which I’ll make of myself, is one of privilege. My social support, education level, finances, and knowledge of the medical system mean that I could probably get listed for an organ should I need one….

When a Pride March Means Owning the Shame of Racial and Economic Injustice

By Peter Laarman

…rifiers to the punishing and destabilizing impact that rapidly rising home prices and rents in “transition” zones invariably has in long-established Black communities. OK, you say, but this is all changing now, right? The Trump phenomenon is bringing us together in a united front for the freedom and dignity of all persons, right? I wish I could believe it. We will see how it goes. I will certainly be marching in Los Angeles on June 11. But somehow…

The “Southern Cage”: How the Myth of the Redemptive Depression Keeps Blacks at the Margins

By Eric C. Miller

…apart in villages and small towns where drought ravaged the crops, falling prices made the rest worthless, and bank failures wiped out people’s savings. The churches that were for many rural people the only place to turn in crisis were broke too. In fact, I found over and over that religious leaders—conservative, Southern ones—led the call for federal intervention because they were powerless in the face of suffering. They applauded the New Deal, e…

RD News Round-Up—September 29, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…talk by the “presidential candidates … about reducing taxes, lowering gas prices and reforming Social Security…. none of that will matter unless we first restore the rule of law and abide by the Constitution.” “We are on the cusp of a new era of progress, but we can’t sit back and hope our elected officials will carry us there. Instead, we must join the people taking action at the local level,” says Whitehead. “If we join these everyday Americans…

Trump’s Yiddish Trash Talk Launches the Great ‘Schlong’ Debate of 2015

By Peter Manseau

…mp’s hometown, this may be the reason why. In 1972, for example, when food prices soared across the United States, the New York based publisher of the Daily Fruit and Vegetable Reporter declared “this year everybody gets schlonged.” The meaning here is neither obviously sexual nor clearly “beaten”, but rather a combination of the two that might best be translated as “screwed.” In any case, if he is in the habit of confusing shlong and shlogn, Trum…

The Heresies of Christopher Hitchens

By Austin Dacey

…invited reactions by others. He comments that in the symposium that ran, a number of the Left intelligentsia made the abysmal mistake of saying, in effect, that while what Susan had said may be partly true or even plain true, she would still have been much better advised not to say it. I think she herself may have feared that she was somehow “objectively” helping Ronald Reagan. But whether her mind changed her, or she changed her mind, she manifes…

I Know Why a Rain Dance Won’t End The Drought

By Johnny P. Flynn

…of urban areas south of Denver. The American consumer is looking at higher prices as corn crops across the Midwest are dying in the fields. This is the context in which Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack recently said: “I get on my knees every day… and I’m saying an extra prayer now. If I had a rain prayer or a rain dance I could do, I would do it.” As an American Indian all my life I have been cursed with the myth of the “Indian rain dance.” I…

“I Had No Intention to Write Atheistically”: Darwin, God, and the 2500-Year History of the Debate

By Edward J. Larson

…c mind during the late nineteenth century. Spencer’s many followers, whose numbers comprised a virtual social register of the Anglo-American moneyed elite, typically embraced Darwinism as well. In his Autobiography, for example, Scottish-American industrialist Andrew Carnegie recalled the day in the 1870s that his reading of Darwin’s Descent of Man, Haeckel’s History of Creation, and various books by Spencer transformed his life. “I remember that…