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Condos on Mars: A New Kind of Limit Experience?

By Laurie Patton

…moon. Exploration is what some theologians and philosophers call a “limit experience”—an experience at the outer boundaries of daily, “normal” human life. It is almost always mysterious; typically marks a moment of major change; and it almost always gives shape and definition to life following it in which time can be measured as coming “before” and “after” that moment. The exploration of Mars, too, is a “limit” experience for the watching world. B…

You Are What You Eat: New Book on Cannibalism Reimagines What It Means to Be Made of Flesh

By Michael Schulson

…history here. By labeling natives savages, colonial conquerors found pretext to savage the natives. In 1503, for example, Queen Isabella of Spain forbade Columbus and his crew from enslaving people in the New World, unless those people were cannibals. If they were cannibals, the Queen announced, Columbus could take them, put them in chains, and sell them wherever he pleased, inside or outside Isabella’s many realms. Reports of cannibalism in the…

Let The Sun Shine In: Marriage Equality Comes to Broadway

By Paul Gorrell

…’s production moves beyond tolerance to a full-blown celebration of same-sex love and experience. Because of this, Hair has not lost its edge. Gay Visibility As a gay man, it is natural for me to see elements of my own story in Claude’s story. Faced with decisions to embrace who he is as a flower child or to respond to the voices of authority around him, Claude clings to an escapist desire to be invisible. Lesbians and gays have been taught throug…

Istanbul ‘Haven of Sorts’ For LGBT Syrians and Iraqis; Cayman Islands Affirm Marriage Ban with ‘Holy Bible Evidence’; No Room for LGBTs in Malaysia’s ‘Islam-Based’ Human Rights Policy; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…em together in a same-sex love story, the novel reminds readers that homosexuality has existed for centuries in every society and culture. In the New York Times, Andrew Siddons examines the plight of American Foreign Service officers whose same-sex spouses cannot get long-term visas in countries that do not recognize same-sex couples’ marriages. The story says, that about half of State Department positions “are effectively off-limits for Foreign S…

American Conservatives, Jewish Law, and Israel’s New Abortion Policy

By Sarah Posner

…licies? The Daily Beast’s Jonathan Krohn set out to find out (“You would expect conservative groups to go ballistic when it comes to taxpayer funding of abortions,” reads his lede) and got a number of vague answers which suggested that US anti-choicers don’t feel particularly inclined to export the abortion wars to Israel. But Americans United for Life’s Charmaine Yoest, who is Christian, ventured into a suggestion that perhaps the Israelis were…

New Egyptian Appointee Vows to Prevent Sunnis from Falling into ‘Shi‘i Trap’

By Christopher Anzalone

…nversions” of Sunni Syrians and Palestinians following the Summer 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah—the Lebanese Shi‘i political party and paramilitary organization—did not help assuage these fears. Interviews with many of these new “converts,” however, suggests that their affinity “for Shi‘ism” was largely based on political support of groups such as Hezbollah which were seen as resisting Israeli military aggression, rather than an adoption o…

Harvest of Corruption: The Shame of the Scandal in New Jersey

By Benjamin Weiner

…h on all of the important factors: the collusion the FBI alleges developed between New Jersey politicians and the rabbis, the fact that the rabbis involved are for the most part representatives of the Syrian Jewish community, the reactions, ranging from nonplussed to not surprised, that have begun to emerge from this fascinating, tightly-knit enclave, the ripple effect this all may have—from Hoboken to Jerusalem, background on the pious Ashkenazic…

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

By Michael Schulson

…: people in New Guinea set their watches by the same standard as people in New Mexico. Ideological enemies find common ground; the United States and North Korea might not agree on much, but we both set our clocks by Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). Systems this total have 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 tho…

Tea Party, Circa 1930s: A Response to Michael Kazin

By Diane Winston

…ny of FDR’s pro-worker initiatives, and the right’s focus shifted from the New Deal to the New World Order. Conservative organizations still roiled local waters. In the 1950s, populist movements fought secular humanism in California’s public schools, and in the 1960s, millions mobilized around Barry Goldwater’s presidential campaign. By the late 1970s, strong grassroots groups in California, the Ozarks, the Midwest, and the South came together in…

New Research Suggests That Belief in Demons May Help Explain Christian Support of Trump

By Robert Repino

…lief in demons for his paper in Social Currents, titled “Ruled by Demons: Exploring the Relationship Between Belief in Demons and Public Attitudes Toward Donald Trump and Joe Biden.” The article drew some attention on Twitter before quietly being ignored. Which is a shame. While references to Satan and hell aren’t new to conservative politics, Nie argues that the rhetoric escalated—and became more accepted—during the administration of George W. Bu…