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Exodus From Rahm’s Washington

By Daniel Schultz

…Vermont. If anything, it’s worse today. Sanders is still there, but these days the advocates for the Capitalist Party are more virulent than ever. Besides, we have Independents for Lieberman to contend with. The point is that just about everybody in Washington works for The Man. Like Digby says, it’s a company town, and when she says “The Company,” she’s not talking about the feds. It’s really much easier to understand what’s going on in D.C. the…

Gandhi, his Grandson, Israel, and the Jews

By Shalom Goldman

…w in writing this letter to you, Mahatma. I made repeated pauses—sometimes days elapsed between short paragraphs—in order to test my knowledge and my way of thinking. Day and night I took myself to task, searching whether I had not in any one point overstepped the measure of self-preservation allotted and even prescribed by God to a human community, and whether I had not fallen into the grievous error of collective egotism. Friends and my own cons…

What is ‘The Square’ that Beat Mubarak?

By H.A. Hellyer

…11. All that I’ve been writing about on Religion Dispatches in the past 18 days—it all started then. The creation of ‘the Square’; something that we cannot describe as simply Tahrir Square in the centre of Cairo, nor a ‘revolution’ in the assumed meaning of the word. A revolution has leaders—the Square did not. A revolution usually has huge amounts of violence from those revolting—the Square did not. But where it counts for the people of the Squar…

Mortal Combat: Risk in the Winter Olympics

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…red-clad lumberjacks and giant inflatable beavers.” One of the event’s big numbers, sung in French and English, was “Let’s Have a Party”—and the gods know these athletes have earned one. We all have. That the party commenced under a glorious full moon seemed fitting. I’ve reflected several times on this site about the ritual and religious meaning of the Modern Olympic Games; games Pierre de Coubertin insisted were intended to serve as a new kind o…

We Are All God’s Got

By Emilie M. Townes

…oking more like the bobblehead dolls of carnage. As I anticipate these two days, and what I would like to carry with me in the days that follow, is that we recognize that we are being called to be the leaders who will change our world beginning yesterday, beginning now. We no longer have the focus of the civil rights movement in our hands; we no longer have buffoons like Bull Connor whose behavior was so obvious that all God’s children could see h…

Mubarak Steps Down; The Birth of a New Egyptian State

By Zaid Hassan

…h Khamenei tried to paint the Egyptian Revolution a shade of ‘79; eighteen days since protests began in Egypt; and thirty-seven days since Mohamed Bouazizi died in Tunisia from self-immolation, sparking the deepest and most widespread changes within the Arab world in generations. In the hours before Mubarak appeared on state television, rumours about his impending resignation swirled through the streets of Cairo, shooting across time and space thr…

Religious Conservatives Mobilize Internationally Against Spanish Nondiscrimination Bill; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ests. The story reports that even though the men were released after three days, they have been stigmatized and are facing mistreatment in their communities based on the arrests. Activists say the passage of the Same-Sex Marriage Prohibition Act of 2014 “officially authorizes abuses against LGBT people, effectively making a bad situation worse.” Juliet Bar, a Nigerian human rights lawyer, says the security agents are taking advantage of the discri…

Savita Halappanavar’s Heartbreaking Death

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…angry. Everything about her death is heartbreaking and angering: the three days she spent in horrible pain, the seeming futility of her laboring when the pregnancy was not viable, the massive infection that should have had no place in a modern hospital, and Savita’s husband’s claim that he was told “This is a Catholic country” to explain why Ms. Halappanavar’s request for an abortion was denied. (University Hospital Galway, where she died, is not…

Krapp’s Last Tweet: The Rise (and Fall?) of Privilege in the Digital Economy

By Kevin Healey

…of struggle in the process of cultural memory formation. From the earliest days of the Tea Party to Donald Trump’s latest xenophobic hysteria, such debates are driven in great part by a growing sense of despair among whites quite similar to Krapp’s brooding resignation: “Perhaps my best years are gone.” Digital media platforms can exacerbate such reactionary tendencies. When protests in Ferguson, Missouri erupted after the shooting of Mike Brown i…

The Blockbuster Spirituality of John Green’s “The Fault In Our Stars”

By Jodi Eichler-Levine

…y” in the Literal Heart of Jesus) speaking of infinities in not-so-endless numbered days. We may all want to be noticed by the universe. This is why we yelp into our virtualsuperaddressee of Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. We are all writing our own eulogies and those of our friends, day by day, good words and bad words and sublime and despairing logics (and the Kardashians, alas) all spun together. And it is here that we address the dead in plain…