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Warpaint: What Does George W. Bush See in His “Portraits of Courage”?

By Sarah Sentilles

…e. Bush’s portraits of veterans remind me of another set of portraits. The American lawyer Susan Burke, accompanied by a writer, a playwright, and a painter, traveled to Istanbul in 2006 to take depositions from Iraqis who had been detained and tortured by Americans in Abu Ghraib prison. The painter, Daniel Heyman, made watercolor portraits of the former detainees while they described what had been done to them. Like Bush’s portraits, Heyman’s wor…

Star Trek: Politics Anti-Matters

By Nathan Schneider

…e part of the Star Trek universe (the introductory international relations class at my college, in fact, was full of Star Trek references.) There were multitudes of races and cultures and alliances; to get by, the good guys had to learn how to deal with them, sometimes violently, but usually peacefully. The central challenge of that universe, since our heroes were representatives of a federation of many planets, was getting along. Star Trek was ab…

What Does Darwin Mean to You?

By Arri Eisen

…thread. For more Darwin Day coverage see Denying Darwin: Another Peculiar American Institution and Five Things We Can Learn From Creationists. — Arri Eisen * * * Creation daughter at four When I consider your hair, how it sticks out after I comb it, how you sob when you cannot tie your shoes and I rock you, so with each move forward you’re falling away from me, with each move backward you’re surging toward me, then the pain of not being able to d…

The Revolution Will Be Whispered: An Excerpt From Everywhere a Guest, Nowhere at Home: A New Vision of Israel and Palestine

By Kim Chernin

…these days they are going to write the whole thing up and read it to their class and find out if there is anyone who wants to join them. No one is going to listen to what their teachers have to say, or their parents, or the people who write books and articles in the newspaper and can’t think of anything except the same old things nobody believes in. Peace conferences in Madrid, declarations of principles, Cairo agreements, Washington agreements, r…

After All the Handwringing We’re Now Seeing Exactly Why Conservative Christians Supported Trump

By Hollis Phelps and L. Benjamin Rolsky

…re provided with new tools and resources for enacting wide-scale change in American society. While racial justice largely defined social justice at the time, reproductive rights would soon gain prominence in the public eye as a form of social justice–and also become the target of conservative backlash, as seen in the mobilization against abortion. Although numerous other factors contributed to his rise to the presidency, one could argue that Trump…

The ‘Evolving’ Story of Teacher Who Burned Cross into Student’s Arm

By Lauri Lebo

…Amendment rights by proselytizing religion and teaching creationism in the classroom. But it also raises the separate issue of battery because of the cross burn, which, Mansfield notes, feeds back into the Establishment Clause issues. Freshwater has filed a counterclaim against the Dennis family, as well as a separate lawsuit against the district, alleging religious discrimination, defamation, conspiracy, and breach of contract. One of the truly w…

Noah v. Kitschy Jesus: A Tale of Two Movies

By Jay Michaelson

…thers were ethical: the ‘common sense’ notions we took apart in philosophy class, the simplistic myths of religion. Others, for lack of a better word, were questions of style. Sentiment, saccharine, Hallmark Cards, kitties with big eyes, immaculate suburban lawns, patriotism, douchey fashion accessories, believing in the bromides of politicians—I can’t quite pinpoint what all of these had in common, except that they were cheap, over-simplified, an…

Freeman Dyson, American Heretic

By Michael J. Altman

If Scientists are the West’s last priestly class then Freeman Dyson might be our greatest heretic. Nicholas Dawidoff’s profile of the brilliant physicist in the New York Times Magazine illuminates a man who has always sought to subvert scientific consensus—most recently in denying the dangers of climate change and CO2 emissions. The story’s title, “The Civil Heretic,” signals the ghost of religion hanging in the background. It is the “secular rel…

The Meaning of Make Believe (Why Religion Doesn’t Have to Be “Real”)

By Neil Ellingson

…th a consecrated object during what must have been a baptismal preparation class. He took a one-dollar bill out of his wallet, struck a match, and lit the perfectly good, perfectly legal tender on fire. It caught flame quickly, as if it had been ready for it. The priest held it by a corner over a small metal bowl that caught the black glowing flakes of paper ash, not dropping it until the last possible second, when it looked like there was no more…

Wisconsin Religious Voices Witness Against Scott Walker

By Daniel Schultz

…he haves and have-nots of society by taking resources away from the middle class and the poor and giving them to the wealthiest among us.” He continues: “This is a serious moral problem for religious people, because our sacred scriptures teach that the government has a responsibility to do the opposite – to prevent this gap from becoming too wide. We have therefore asked for a meeting with the Governor to discuss these moral concerns with him.” Me…