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Dalai Lama: “I Am a Marxist, But Not a Leninist”

By Tsering Namgyal

…inst religious institutions that were allied, during Marx’s time, with the European ruling class. He also provided an interesting anecdote about his experience with Mao. He said that Mao had felt that the Dalai Lama’s mind was very logical, implying that Buddhist education and training help sharpens the mind. He said he met with Mao several times, and that once, during a meeting in Beijing, the Chinese leader called him in and announced: “Your min…

Will bin Laden’s Killing End the Jihadi Trend?

By Christopher Anzalone

…for al Qaeda and its affiliates, though much will depend on how the US and European governments respond. The continued violence and turmoil in Libya, Syria, Yemen and to a lesser extent Bahrain also plays into al Qaeda’s claim that violence is the answer. Non-Arab jihadi groups, and al Qaeda’s regional affiliates in North Africa, Yemen, and Iraq, are also likely to be less affected by bin Laden’s death. In recent years, al Qaeda in Pakistan and Af…

Gluttons for Jesus

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ng to the nanny state to cure their ills only need to take a gander at the European Union to the see the destruction BIG governments have caused—and it continues to get worse every day. She might have a point if weight loss had anything at all to do with the government. Instead, the Daniel Plan simply follows good science. The American Psychological Association says people lose weight more effectively with the support of a group. Aside from that,…

Crisis in Philly: Trial Date Nears for Priests Indicted in Sex Abuse Scandal

By Anthea Butler

…tholic Church and the sex scandal unfolding in Germany, Belgium, and other European countries. At the time, I surmised that the story would end much like it has here in the U.S., with rules, regulations and recriminations—but with abuses still occurring. What I didn’t anticipate was that the story would unfold steps away from my home and office in 2011. Philadelphia’s Avenging Altar Boy The Archdiocese of Philadelphia and Philadelphia Catholics h…

Red Riding Hood Arouses Man’s Inner (Were)Wolf

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…a sort of Satanic contract. This was widely reported in all the new-print European tabloids of the day. And then there’s the fact that the Brothers Grimm were not the original source. That honor belongs to Charles Perrault, whose jarring and highly sexualized tale was designed for a very adult audience. Our prejudice for seeing fairy tales as child’s play may be Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s doing, though even their tales seem a little, well, a littl…

Why the King Hearings Should Matter to Mormons

By Joanna Brooks

…law and by mobs in various sites of the nation at the turn of the century. European immigration by Mormon converts was enjoined, as well. Arguably, this was over more than the illegality of plural marriage. But LDS lawlessness in this one matter was always available to legitimize widespread legal and popular discrimination. This seems an essential distinction between the two groups; at least insofar as it relates to King’s intention to investigate…

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

By Michael Schulson

…? What about taking pills made from powdered mummies? That was a remedy in European pharmacies into the 20th century. Is eating your own placenta an act of cannibalism? What about eating someone else’s placenta? Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History Bill Schutt Algonquin Books, February 2017 Stop thinking in culinary terms, and the question gets even thornier, because bits of human bodies cross over into other human bodies all the time. Ailing…

News Flash: God Has Revised the Laws of Physics

By Paul Wallace

…so long as everyone plays nice and obeys the cosmic speed limit. If those European neutrinos really did arrive at their destination 60 nanoseconds early, all bets are off. Causality goes on the block. And when that happens, everything goes, in the immortal words of Michael Binkley, “all higgeldy-piggeldy.” Think Back to the Future. Think Terminator. Think Ghostbusters: “Cats and dogs, living together!” This brink-of-pandemonium flavor of the CERN…

5 Reasons the Muslim Brotherhood Won’t Turn On Israel

By Haroon Moghul

…very Channel every three or four days. Ancient Egypt is one of the few non-European societies we all seem to know about; in fact we often treat it as part of Western history. Countless tourists visit Egypt every year. The Egyptian economy is deeply dependent on tourism of the Pharaonic and Islamic varieties, and cannot long survive alienated from the world. Aggressive national policy will accomplish nothing for Egypt and the many Egyptians whose…

Religion for Atheists for The Rest of Us

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…tional creature called the atheist. That said, de Botton also has a large, European blind spot that will disappoint many American atheists. He does not attempt to explain a principal reason for distaste for organized religion: its all-too-real alliance with conservative politics. De Botton asks readers to look beyond theology to practical wisdom. That’s difficult to do when that theology, weaponized with politics, is already having practical conse…