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The Gray Lady’s Regard: Ritual and the Wedding Pages

By Kathryn Lofton

…s is to encounter repeatedly the symbolic hegemony of starter hedge funds, Manhattan arts agencies, and the Ivy League as the taming ties of couplehood. Any elitism (the couple “met in kindergarten at the Ethical Culture School in Manhattan”) is counterbalanced by ecumenism (“the bridegroom’s father is a plastic surgeon in Boca Raton”). “Whereas the old establishment was based on birth and breeding,” David Brooks explains, “this new establishment…

Just War Tradition v. David Brooks on 9/11 Trials

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…cks will be brought to the US to be tried in a non-military court in lower Manhattan—has raised cries of outrage from many quarters. Here is yet another complex contemporary issue that does not seem to break down neatly according to the old logic of “liberal and conservative” politics. Some object to the decision not to try the five in military tribunals instead. Some object to the symbolism of bringing the men onto US soil. Others embrace the s…

No Space for American Islam?

By Mark Bergen

…ommunity center, formerly called Cordoba House, slated to rise in downtown Manhattan. Earlier in the day, a city agency gave the final approval for the project. Bloomberg finished with a full-throated endorsement: Political controversies come and go, but our values and our traditions endure—and there is no neighborhood in this City that is off limits to God’s love and mercy, as the religious leaders here with us today can attest. These controversi…

The Anti-Defamation League Jumps the Shark

By Jay Michaelson

…multifaith dialogue-oriented Islamic center two blocks from Ground Zero in Manhattan. Wait a minute, my (non-Jewish) boyfriend asked me, did they drop a letter from their name? Are they the Defamation League now? A Wounded People Those of us who have watched the ADL for years were less surprised. The sad truth is, while there is an interesting backstory which explains some of this bizarre situation, the ADL has long been out of step with more prog…

Douthat’s Sinister Subtext

By Syreeta McFadden

…Discussing the proposed construction of the Cordoba House project in Lower Manhattan, Douthat writes: There’s an America where it doesn’t matter what language you speak, what god you worship, or how deep your New World roots run…But there’s another America as well, one that understands itself as a distinctive culture, rather than just a set of political propositions. This America speaks English, not Spanish or Chinese or Arabic. It looks back to a…

2012 Film Heralds Progressive Utopia, No Effort Required

By Jessica Weisberg

…or them. Meet Me at the Wrecking Ball Pinchbeck himself was raised among a number of sixties luminaries, including Allen Ginsberg, Abbie Hoffman, and Jack Kerouac. (He lived in Manhattan, where his father was a painter and his mother a Beat writer and editor.) In his twenties, he worked as a freelance journalist and founded a literary journal called Open City. “Once upon a time, not so long ago, I was a typical Manhattan atheist, suspicious, cynic…

What Good Is It for Union to Gain the World, But Forfeit Its Soul?

By Yazmine Nichols

…e Housing: Preservation of the remaining subsidized housing stock in Upper Manhattan is critical to ensure that the existing low and moderate income households of the Upper West Side, Manhattan Valley, and Morningside Heights are not displaced; that housing is available in these neighborhoods for low and moderate income households in the future; and that mixed-income neighborhoods remain a hallmark of the New York City environment. It also is an a…

Why Changes in Reporting Won’t Fix the Catholic Church’s Sexual Abuse Problem

By Angela Bonavoglia

…he priests,” as Msgr. Robert Ritchie, rector of St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Manhattan, did just a Sunday ago? We know what has to be done and so do they. Yet, since 1992, when, as a Ms. contributor, I witnessed the Brooklyn diocese transfer back to his home parish in the Philippines a priest I had just interviewed—one among six priests who had taken a teenage girl to an LA hotel room they had rented by the hour—we’ve seen three popes fail miserably…

At Launch Rally in Waco, Former President Sets the Stakes for Trump ’24 Campaign with Apocalyptic, Violent, Genocidal Rhetoric

By Annika Brockschmidt & Thomas Lecaque

…ed animal,” and “doing the work of Anarchists and the Devil,” all refer to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg Jr., who happens to be Black. It’s no coincidence that most of these are terms that have been used by authoritarians in the past to mark their political enemies as less than human—be it the Manhattan DA, people of color, queer people, Democrats, or everyone to the left of Donald Trump—one of the characteristics of genocidal speech. Th…

Reports of the Death of ISIS Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…acts throughout the world, from Nigeria to Indonesia, and from Belgium to Manhattan. The reason why ISIS survives in these different forms is that it was never a single thing in the first place. As I have argued elsewhere, ISIS has been both an organization and a movement, a network of political control as well as a decentralized popularist uprising. The collapse of the political network associated with the geographic control of the Islamic State…