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The Magic of the Higgs Boson Particle

By Yoni Pasternak

…h oversizd magicians’ hats. Instead of producing bunny rabbits out of thin air though, they emit particles—different particles than those first inserted. A recent Wall Street Journal op-ed refers to CERN’s scientists as “CERN’s wizards.” And, of course, the most obvious resort to supernatural language is the notorious label with which physicist Leon Lederman baptized the Higgs boson particle: “the God particle.” “The Higgs field works its black ma…

The Pope, The Chef & Krampus: Merry Yikesmas!

By Peter Manseau

…too quickly. And it turns out Bourdain thought so, too. What he’d hoped to air is a bit of mischief that would have elevated the No Reservations holiday special from simply very good to subversive classic. In homage to the stop-action ghost of Christmas specials past, Bourdain made his own Krampus Carol, complete with a horned demon licking the faces of children before he beats them with a stick: It really is a hoot, especially if you grew up, as…

Week in Religion: Satan Sandwich, Captain Israel v. Foreskin Man, Christian Missile Launchers

By Michael J. Altman

…rael’s basketball league is attracting Jewish American players skipped over by the NBA. Florida Marlins baseball manager Jack McKeon prays to St. Thérèse during the national anthem before every game. Do you speak the Christian lingo? The Air Force has suspended an ethics briefing for missile launch commanders that relied heavily on Christian doctrines. The Philadelphia Museum of Art will exhibit a set of Rembrandt’s paintings of Jesus that have hi…

Sam Harris Says Qur’an “Not That Good”

By Hussein Rashid

…arris’ statement, which is to be expected, but that Sullivan would give it air and frame it in such a way as to give the impression that he agrees. I was very pleased to see that numerous readers did respond, and Sullivan did give them the space to do so. I was most impressed by the last commentator, an incoming graduate student at the School of Oriental and African Studies. The individual wrote about many of the things that make the Qur’an valua…

Church and State in Mexico: A Political Party Wavers on Women’s Rights

By Ruth Samuelson

…the restoration of more secular governing; but now everything’s up in the air. Has the PRI become just another politically conservative, church aligned-party? Or can it return to its legacy of secularism? Religious Power Games During the PAN’s Reign A fire to win defines the PRI ethos. The party held Mexico’s executive office for 71 years until losing the presidency in 2000. Many past PRI presidents viewed the Catholic Church as a political threa…

So You’ve Decided to Run for Senate Against a Pro Wrestling Mogul

By Dan Mathewson

…b discrimination. The character, along with his Arab sidekick, Khosrow Daivairi, would sometimes end his anti-American tirades by raising his hands to the sky in praise of Allah. The duo enacted the far-Right’s paranoid delusion of who really pulled the strings in organizations like the Council on American-Islamic Relations: America-hating religious fanatics, bent on the destruction of this great land. What conclusion might one draw from the WWE’s…

Occupy the Greek Orthodox Church

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…, have been designed to insist that the people are paying more than their fair share, whereas the banks are not paying anything at all. Whether you prefer the word ‘default’ or the phrase ‘debt restructuring,’ a more just outcome would be one in which the banks absorb some of this pain as well, by agreeing to be repaid fifty cents on the euro for all the bad loans that they made. That is what’s in the works this week. But something new and unprece…

A Head Full of Monsters: American History as Horror Show

By W. Scott Poole

…istory of horror. It matters that the first European settlers saw the very air of America filled with devils. It matters that Frankenstein’s Monster became America’s most popular monster at a time when medical experimentation on racial minorities had become rather more common that we realize. I think that the it makes sense that the zombie has become our current monster after a historical moment when apocalyptic notions of getting “Left behind” ha…

The Ghost Is More Important Than The Machine: Norman Corwin (1910-2011)

By Peter Manseau

…s Radio Is Here to Stay,” Corwin took his audience on a guided tour of the airwaves, creating at once a rough primer on how radio works and a spell conjuring the sensation of what a “miracle” it truly was: “This microphone is not an ordinary instrument / For it looks out on vistas wide indeed,” he wrote. “My voice commingles now with northern lights and asteroids and Alexander’s skeleton / With dead volcanoes and with donkey’s ears… / It drifts am…

#Occupy: A Deeper Form of Protest?

By Jay Michaelson

…ould take right now to close the wealth gap somewhat and make our economy fairer. I get irritated when more left-wing Occupy-ers suggest there’s no difference between the two major parties, because on these issues, there obviously is. If we still had a Democratic Congress, we’d have a much fairer tax code (plus better health care, plus a thousand other things). But okay, that’s me. When I look at vast movements in history—fascism, socialism, Ameri…