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6 Reservations About U.S. Intervention in Libya

By Haroon Moghul

…he condition of the American people. The roads around my apartment need repair. Can we get NATO to send some army engineers in? New York City also desperately needs new airports, which I’m sure we could build up at least partway, and then address the American people as to why we were forced to build it without clearing it first; after all, New York is vital to the American and global economy. If we’re going to transgress certain democratic princi…

MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell Needs to Get a Grip on his Issues with Mormonism

By Joanna Brooks

…gainst Mormonism that left Eleanor Clift and even Pat Buchanan gasping for air. Beginning his rant by joking “I’m not a Mormon, but I do play one on t.v.”—O’Donnell played polygamist Bill Henrickson’s lawyer on Big Love—he characterized Mormonism as a “demented” “racist” faith “based on the work of a lying, fraudulent criminal named Joseph Smith who was a racist, who was pro-slavery.” Wrong on his facts and on his basic grasp of Mormon reality,…

Sarah Palin to Tour Israel, Christian-Style

By Anthea Butler

…t in the ring for 2012. What is clear though is that she is not going to play primary politics the same way that the other Republicans presidential hopefuls are. By continuing to take events that are either religious, patriotic, or pay-to-play dates, Palin can still suck all of the media air out of the room without declaring her intent, while her followers can organize underneath the eyes of the media glare. Whatever Palin does on her Israel trip…

ABC’s Good Christian Bitches Makes Feminists of Religious Right

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…nd vegetarianism from here on out. Before I rise to meet the Lord in the air, though, permit me a few thoughts. Thought one: Psst… Some feminists have been reclaiming the word “bitch” for, like, a few years now. A woman who adopts the label of “bitch” for herself, the thinking goes, subverts the stigma associated with women being forthright, assertive, and selfish. This is not an uncontroversial claim among those who give a hoot about equal…

Will the Religious Side with Workers?

By Peter Laarman

…et. See below. A still-active “Protestant Ethic”: There’s a reason why Max Weber didn’t call his big book The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Socialism. Weber believed that Calvinists have a particular anxiety about making it on their own, but the historic reality is that most Protestants share this anxiety and share an apprehension about throwing in with their workplace comrades to make things better. Nowhere more so than in these United State…

Huckabee on Obama vs. “Average Americans”

By Sarah Posner

…s on loan to former President Bush by former British Prime Minister Tony Blair — and replaced it with a bust of his own choosing, of that notorious un-American figure… wait for it… Abraham Lincoln. Huckabee realized later that Obama spent part of his childhood in Indonesia, not Kenya, and despite failing to take on Malzberg’s birtherism on the air, admitted that he knows Obama was born in Hawaii. Here’s Huckabee’s statement, in which he goes on to…

The Problem of Evil in Free Market Theology

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…d so revolutionary: there is nothing patient about it. It demands what Max Weber famously called this-worldly salvation: the frenetic pace of trade and development; quick turnarounds; instant returns on calculated risks. It’s part of the myth (yes, myth) of Horatio Alger: everyone is just one lottery ticket (or one investment, which amounts to much the same thing) away from becoming a millionaire. What is most striking about Laderman’s suggestion…

Hajj Journal: The Journey Begins and Ends

By Amina Wadud

…when next I will see a person in the days before departing, then go to the airport alone. Leaving Indonesia I was blessed with the local option: there was a party of people at my house that day and two carloads came to the airport. I am touched by this. Overwhelmed in fact, because I don’t know what to do with all these people. As I mentioned, my original itinerary allowed me to fly direct from SFO to Paris. This new itinerary had me stop in anoth…

The Trouble With Harry (Potter): Religious Conservatives Do Have Something to Fear

By Jay Michaelson

…race is in the case of Gryffindor’s Sword, which twice appears out of thin air to aid heroes in distress. Yet, we are told, this too is the result, not of any superhuman force, but of Gryffindor’s own power. Indeed, author J.K. Rowling does a remarkable job of humanizing and deflating the one godlike figure in the series of books, headmaster Albus Dumbledore. Early on, Dumbledore appears infallible, wise, and invulnerable. But particularly in the…

Why David Sometimes Wins: What We Must Learn From Cesar Chavez

By Frederick Clarkson

…sessions with 10-15 persons, participants verbally attacked each other to air problems” for periods of one to three hours. Ganz concludes, “Chavez transformed UFW deliberations into a controlled, exclusive and judgmental process in which one’s loyalty was constantly on the line.” Chavez sought to make “the game” as central to the practice of the union as it was to Synanon. In the Spring of 1978, Chavez required 200 staffers to travel as much as f…