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Brownback Nomination Further Evidence That “Religious Freedom” Is Code For “Conservative Christian Supremacy”

By Sunnivie Brydum

…ational education. He’d be the first Catholic to hold the position, but as New York Magazine explains, that doesn’t mean he’d have any particular sensitivity for members of faith traditions that have been historically marginalized. Instead, it’s much more likely to mean he will continue the Christian supremacist agenda he’s been pushing since he entered public office. New York‘s Ed Kilgore explains: [Brownback] was a member of the shadowy conserva…

Could a Real Life Jurassic Park Help with Climate Change?

By Michael Schulson

…the past, whether it’s the Paleolithic tundra, the immigrant hustle of old New York, some preindustrial culinary paradise, pre-European North America, or the eastern European shtetl, shortly before the arrival of the Enlightenment. And, as with Shapiro’s mammoths, you can only pull yourself into the past by using the techniques of the present and future. Hipster chic and paleo dieting couldn’t exist without the affluence and leisure delivered by a…

RD Book: Class Conscious

By Lynne Gerber

…in the Halls of Power, with a story of the joining of two worlds at a posh New York event. Hosted by Rupert Murdoch “in one of Manhattan’s most celebrated ballrooms,” the event feted Rick Warren—evangelical preacher and publishing sensation—bringing together the seemingly disparate worlds of urban sophistication and folksy faith. “Do you know any of these evangelicals that are here?” a publishing house editor asked Lindsay. “I’m dying to meet one….

How Trump’s Assertion of “Power to Pardon” Tramples the American Sacred

By Spencer Dew

…nty at odds with the American experiment. In his recent interview with the New York Times Trump talks as if he considers himself “above the law, and… believes himself to be, through no fault of his own, besieged by internal and external enemies, particularly in the Justice Department and the F.B.I.” The suggestion of self-pardoning makes explicit the possibility of circumventing the rule of law, understanding the power of the position of president…

A Boundary-Busting Memoir of Love, Mental Illness, and Being Muslim in America

By Haroon Moghul

…Relations. I wish I could have told the story of what it was like to be in New York during the so-called Ground Zero Mosque controversy. At the end of How to be a Muslim, I’ve just gotten married, but I didn’t get to talk about that journey, about what it was like to fall in love again, or even just what it’s like to find your footing after a major failure, and how differently I look at the world today. If this book is about how I learned to find…

Teaching Plato in Palestine: Can Philosophy Save Us From Our Differences?

By Jerome E. Copulsky

…e led a clandestine salon with a group of Hasidic Jews in a hipster bar in New York’s SoHo neighborhood; conversed with high school students in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil; and convened a series of workshops with the Mohawk Council of Akwesanse on the US/Canadian border. These journeys were originally inspired by a series of conversations he had in a language exchange group while he was working on his Arabic skills in Cairo. Over time, Fraenkel’s de…

Hagee and McCain Part Ways

By Ira Chernus

…orce them to go where God wants them: the land of Israel. According to the New York Times, “Rabbi Eric Yoffie, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, the country’s largest branch of Judaism, said that while he did not consider Mr. Hagee an anti-Semite, he found a reading of the Bible that would include a prophecy of Hitler to be ‘obscene.’” He is not the first rabbi to say so. Over 40 years ago, Rabbi Richard Rubenstein became famous (or notor…

Can You Be Liberal and Catholic?

By Patricia Miller

…ns for poor women. When 24 nuns signed a statement that was printed in the New York Times in 1984 saying that there was a diversity of Catholic opinion on abortion, the Vatican hounded them until 22 recanted and the other two resigned. More recently, the Vatican disciplined the Leadership Conference of Women Religious for its progressive views and for endorsing a version of the ACA that didn’t include the bishops’ prohibitions on abortion. The con…

RD News Round-Up—September 22, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…is featured at the BornAliveTruth website. In addition to coverage in the New York Times, CNN and the Associated Press, the organization’s launch received blanket coverage from such likeminded sites as Conservative Grapevine, Catholic News Service, LifeSiteNews, LifeNews, Stop the ACLU, OneNewsNow and many more. The main donor to BornAliveTruth, a 527—an organization allowed to raise money from individuals in unlimited amounts—is Raymond Ruddy, w…

No, Sunni and Shia Muslims Have Not Been Fighting Forever

By Haroon Moghul

…it helps us get past the simple headlines—check out the front page of the New York Times today, suggesting the Iranian-Saudi rivalry is embedded in and involves all Sunni and Shia—but because this reader’s question inadvertently helps us understand why so many in the West and the Muslim world keep talking past each other. Here’s the reader’s question: Can you give me any insight into the apparently undying hatred of Sunni Muslims (e.g., the Saudi…