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Policing Academic Freedom: A Book, a Controversy, and the Ominous Aftermath

By Michael Jerryson

…ar of Hindu traditions. A few months after The Hindus was published in the United States, it was favorably reviewed in the New York Times. The award-winning Indian essayist Pankaj Mishra praised the work as “staggeringly comprehensive,” and noted that “it is impossible not to admire a book that strides so intrepidly into a polemical arena almost as treacherous as Israel-Arab relations. The book was published the following year in India and was cr…

White People Dying Younger Because of…Moral Turpitude? Give Us a Break

By Peter Laarman

…f the AIDS pandemic. Fortunately, at least for those within the chattering classes, life expectancy–and good health expectancy–continue to rise among well-educated white people. Most c-class commentators, including the New York Times editorial board, are taking a sharp breath over this despairing news but are not rushing to conclusions about what must be done. Not so the fearless fusilladiers at First Things: boss editor R.R. Reno plunged right in…

Malta Adopts Marriage Equality Over Objections of Catholics and Evangelicals; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…nce sparked by western intervention Amrou Al-Kadhi, an Iraqi living in the United Kingdom, wrote a column this month saying that deadly violence against LGBT people in Iraq had “escalated dramatically” since the Western invasion of the country in 2003. From his commentary in The Independent: Humanitarian reports estimate that between 2004 to 2009, 680 people have been murdered due to gender and sexual non-conformism. According to Amir Ashour, the…

Clashing human rights visions for LGBTs at United Nations; More Mixed Messages from the Vatican as Family Synod Begins; Timeline of Worsening Homophobia by Turkey’s AKP Party; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ed Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the United Nations Fund for Children (UNICEF), the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), UN Women, the World Food Programme (WFP) and the World Health Organization (WHO). On the same day, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon spoke at the High Level LGBT Core Group Event t…

Jesus Was Single

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…y through the courts, a new issue will have emerged: that the state has no business in the marriage business, period. Once upon a time, some states did indeed have a vested interest in legitimating and normalizing marriage. This social institution created lines of legitimacy, lines that were crucial for establishing lines of inheritance and what have you. But we have other ways of handling these matters now. Religious communities can decide freely…

Welcome to the Shari’ah Conspiracy Theory Industry

By Sarah Posner

…t on acts of sedition against America; that the majority of mosques in the United States are run by imams who promote such sedition; and that through this fifth column, shari’ah law has already infiltrated the United States and could result in a complete takeover if not stopped. What Shari’ah Really Is In an interview with the Center for American Progress, Intisar Rabb, a member of the law faculty at Boston College Law School, explains that: “Shar…

Marianne Williamson and Me

By Diane Winston

…alifornia’s 33rd District Congressional seat. Williamson’s visit to my USC class on American spirituality was a boon for me, but it also served her purposes. District 33 cuts through some of the state’s wealthiest communities including Malibu, Beverly Hills and Palos Verdes, and Williamson would be speaking here to potential voters if not volunteers. Meanwhile, I’d have a 21st century incarnation of the 19th century New Thought and Theosophy teach…

Why Real Political Power Will Not Come From a Revived Religious Left

By Nicholas Laccetti

…pitting poor whites against black freedmen to divide the Southern working class in order to avoid the development of a unified, robust labor movement in the South after the Civil War. Today, the powers that be continue to utilize a divide-and-conquer strategy to keep the poor divided along color lines and other lines of division. The original Poor People’s Campaign was King’s solution for building the unity of the poor as a class as a prerequisit…

Religion, Morality, and the Death of the American Soap Opera

By Katy E. Shrout

…ves.” Cut to a montage of four decades’ worth of flashbacks. Serious Moral Business Within this context of attention to the past, programs devote intense energy to the day-to-day business of intense moral dilemmas, egregious moral violations, and agonizing moral questions. Personal morality, rather than social justice, has always been the domain of the soap. Those who watch soap operas regularly will not hesitate to tell you that the shows have in…

Peter King, Visit My Class

By Hussein Rashid

…ken time from his busy schedule of watching 1999 TV and attended one of my classes. In fact, he should consider this an open invitation. One of the things I urge my students to engage in is evidence-based argumentation. Look at a piece of information, evaluate its source, and try to understand how others consider that source. With that in mind, King should know that not only has the personal opinion of Kabbani been debunked as a factual statement,…