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Men Without Guns: A Tribute to Larry McMurtry

By Amy Laura Hall

…nd the time came for them to fly, they refused. They had had enough of ignomi*]}*ny; better to remain on the limb indefinitely. Buzzards are not without patience. Profanity, fire-crackers, and even a shotgun full of rock salt failed to move them. I’m told that, in desperation, a bird man was flown in from L.A. to teach the sulky bastards how to fly. Describing one un-felled swoop, McMurtry has made mythologizing silly, the filmmakers merely human, and…

Ebola and Us: The American Roots of Liberia’s Trauma

By Peter Laarman

…e estimated.” (Free blacks weren’t the only danger: during the 1820s a few New York-based colonizationists associated with Columbia College also supported the christianizing and removal of Jews to a vast tract of land that had been donated for the purpose in Western New York State.) Apart from some fastidious Yankees, most supporters of African colonization had few misgivings about the rightness of chattel slavery. Their ranks numbered legendary c…

Oh Say, Can You See?: 9/11 Flag Displays and the Flag’s Symbolic Power

By Spencer Dew

…e 9/11 artifact flags, such as the one famously raised over Ground Zero by New York City firemen or similarly distinct memorial flags like the giant, 75-pound “Patriot Flag” which is on tour around the country to honor the 9/11 victims. The commemorative fields of flags that demarcate local 9/11 memorial rituals, however, feature most prominently the iconic Stars and Stripes, and, while the number of flags arranged is meant to be awe-inspiring, al…

Ross Douthat on the Brink

By Haroon Moghul

…of conclusion we’d expect from a Pamela Geller, or a Tommy Robinson. Not a New York Times columnist. Speaking of the large numbers of mostly male refugees entering Germany and Western Europe, Douthat writes that “many of these men carry assumptions about women’s roles that are diametrically opposed to the values of contemporary Europe.” How, exactly? He coyly cites a Norwegian curriculum for migrants which notes that “in Europe, ‘to force someone…

Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…sts, allowing “tens of thousands” of children to be abused. According to a New York Times editorial, “The United Nations panel went to the heart of the matter in rejecting the church officials’ claims that they were responsible for enforcing the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child only within the geographical limits of Vatican City and not globally through their power over the Roman Catholic diocesan hierarchy.” Church officials a…

Evangelical Islamophobia as American as Apple Pie

By Shalom Goldman

…election to make Islam a campaign issue. Back in August he sought to make New York’s Park51 community center a Florida issue. “I’m totally against it. If I had my way, it would pretty much be over my dead body. That religion is against everything America stands for. If we have to let them build it, make them build it nine stories underground, so we can walk above it as citizens and Christians.” [For a survey of these and other Islam-related elect…

Jewish Past/Israeli Future: A Review of The Invention of the Jewish People

By Shalom Goldman

…sh mother may have the best of both worlds—being free to live in London or New York, confident that the State of Israel is theirs, even if they do not wish to live under its sovereignty. Yet anyone who did not emerge from Jewish loins and who lives in Jaffa or Nazareth will feel that the state in which they were born will never be theirs. To Read What Has Really Been Written In what I think was a tactical error, rather than make the citizenship an…

Pussy Prophets & Nuns on Buses: Will Feminist Politics Get More Holy & Foolish?

By Beatrice Marovich

…ly a display of concord with Pussy Riot’s “punk prayer.” Additionally, the New York Times reports that several women (arrested for wearing the iconic Pussy Riot balaclavas at a protest in front of the Russian consulate) will be challenging an 1845 New York mask law that prevents crowds of masked bodies from gathering in a public space. There’s something extremely foolish about the bright neons of these balaclavas, about Pussy Riot band members’ an…

Excerpt: The Christian Roots of Zionism

By Shalom Goldman

…ournal attributed President Truman’s decision to recognize Israel to ‘‘the New York vote’’—code for the Jewish vote. Reading the Christian Century’s articles in the light of later developments, it seems that these reservations about creating a Jewish state were the opinions of a small elite. As Truman biographer David McCullough has noted, Truman’s motives in granting Israel diplomatic recognition were both political and religious. Writing of the…

World Congress of Families Draws Anti-LGBT Activists to Budapest; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ation’s capital, police arrested 141 men in a raid on a gay club. From the New York Times: Analysts said the arrests in Jakarta were part of enforcement efforts by the police before Ramadan, the monthlong holiday in which observant Muslims fast throughout the day. Tobias Basuki, an analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Jakarta, said the police appeared to be formally taking on a role that had previously been held by hard…