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Rand Paul Is Not Anti-Authority

By Sarah Posner

…committing a felony.” Why, then, did he bother reporting on Paul’s college days in the first place? Zengerle explains: “the reason I wrote about Paul’s college days was not because I thought they revealed anything interesting or significant about his religious faith, or even his attitudes toward illegal drugs. Rather, I wrote about them because I believe they point to traits that are crucial to understanding Rand Paul: namely, his anti-authority s…

Critics of Hasidic Schools Exposé Missed the Point: It Wasn’t Antisemitic or the Product of Secular Bias — It’s a Story of Corruption

By Shaul Magid

…ses its head—as seems to be the case whenever Jews are written about these days. Finally, that the very accusation is based on chauvinistic assumptions about what constitutes “knowledge” given that haredi education is certainly intense and rigorous, albeit in matters that arguably fail to provide its students with basic 21st century life skills. This is especially true if they choose to live outside their enclaves which, in some ways, is precisely…

The Left Behind: Why Are White American Christians So Racist?

By Daniel Schultz

…course, partisanization and racialization are often one and the same these days, which is why you have people all the way from James Dobson to Andrew Sullivan declaring that the Black Lives Matter movement and the protests it’s sparked are “incompatible with Christianity.” (Fact check: wrong.) This train of thought seems to be taking us into an ever-darker tunnel. Jones’ underlying theory is apparently that if white Christians knew what they were…

Douthat’s Sinister Subtext

By Syreeta McFadden

…city agencies, restaurants, and retail stores. We returned to work during Days of Awe, the first ten days of the Jewish New Year marked by Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. The commissioner and a several others organized a memorial and interfaith prayer service at St. Andrew’s Church. A rabbi, a priest, and an imam. A crowded sanctuary of city employees of Chinese, Nigerian, German, Italian, Irish descent. Jewish, Sikh, Buddhist, Christian, Muslim. A…

This Veterans Day, the Centennial of the Unknown Soldier, Skip the Platitudes and Talk to a Veteran

By Sara Jaye Hart

…of complement to Memorial Day’s poignancy, Veterans Day falls in darkening days. Its joy was never exultation, but relief: the war is over. Those sent into the thick of it to defend freedoms, ideals, allies, a way of life: they will come home. With a loved one at the front, ideals distill to the sound of an absent voice, the memory of touch. In the context of war, a victory song is always something of a dirge. America’s National Veterans Day Cerem…

Dalai Lama: “I Am a Marxist, But Not a Leninist”

By Tsering Namgyal

…never thought that I would be speaking fluent Mandarin one day. But these days I often find myself conversing with students from China and Taiwan and sometimes, quite against my wishes, overhear intricate details of Chinese lovers’ talk. Last week, when the Dalai Lama was in Minneapolis, I had a chance to go to a conference attended by nearly 150 Chinese students. Luckily, I ended up being privy to a fascinating meeting. I sat at the back of the…

Saipov Wasn’t a “Member” of ISIS, But That Misses the Point

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…ut in general it is fair to say that ISIS’ days of territorial control are numbered. But ISIS has never been a movement that’s defined solely by territorial control. The enormous cyber network of participants in online chats on Twitter and Telegram, and the global audience for the slick online publications such as Inspire, Dabiq, and Rumiyah have constituted an alternative movement rivaling the size and significance of the Arab Sunni-based Calipha…

Dems Should Take Notes From Elizabeth Warren’s Pitch-Perfect Answer on Faith

By Daniel Schultz

…ution, or whatever other silly focus-grouped hashtag is going around these days. That allows her to step out of the weak framing of “liberal people have values too,” which only ends up reinforcing the conservative message that they don’t. Because of that, she’s able to effectively shift the intellectual burden back onto anyone who questions her faith. You say I don’t believe in Jesus? Well, here’s the results of my faith. What have you got to show…

Rand Paul’s Messianic Campaign Video Shouts “Yes I Can!”

By Gareth Higgins

…e such a thing is, of course, unquestioned in campaign season (which these days, it seems, is all days). So there’s no need for the video to go to the trouble of seriously engaging with any issues. Instead, it has other commentators speak for Paul; in extracted footage of television news programs, luminaries are shown saying nice things about the candidate. It’s a smart move—though having Newt Gingrich call you “the most consistently principled pe…

If Music is Haram, then Allah Made a Mistake

By Amina Wadud

…ame year as Cat Stevens, a musician, whom i loved dearly in my high school days. He also concluded that music was haram. Imagine. If you’ve never heard any of his music, go find some and especially listen to his lyrics. “Morning has broken like the first morning, black bird has spoken like the first bird… Praise the relations, praise every morning, God’s recreation on the new day…”—surely haram. Singing in praise of God? Singing in recognition of…