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Modern Vampires: Your Neighbors and Spouses

By Joseph Laycock

…we will all become non-vampires, where before we were not. I was recently contacted by MTV about the possibility of hosting a show on modern vampires. They were looking for an expert who was both young and not a vampire. They asked me my age and then asked, “And are you a vampire?” Had I not identified with the category of “non-vampire,” they would have withdrawn their job offer. Is there anything you had to leave out? There were two chapters tha…

Rick Perry’s Jesus Imperative: A Report from Saturday’s Mega-Rally

By Sarah Posner

…lted. The people who gathered at Reliant Stadium are not just Rick Perry’s spiritual army, raised up, as Perry and others imagine it, in the spirit of Joel 2 to sound an alarm and prepare the people for Judgment Day. They are the ground troops the religious right set out four decades ago to create, and duplicate over generations, for the ongoing culture wars. One part of that army is people like Perry himself, supported by religious right politica…

NYPD Lied About Islamophobic Third Jihad

By Hussein Rashid

…the deep, structural racism and the collusion with the CIA to violate the spirit, if not the letter, of federal and local laws, they relish in lying to the public. In the face of months of AP reports that the NYPD has been engaged in spying, they deny it, simply stating that AP is wrong, offering no proof of their innocence or rebuttals. Then their claim was that Third Jihad was only shown a couple of times and that Police Commissioner Raymond Ke…

The Sanders Insurgency: A Return to the “Secular Sacred”?

By Peter Laarman

…e…”). In its depth and breadth, the popular rejection of plutocracy between 1870 and 1919 (the year of the Palmer Raids and a sharp turn against radicalism) channeled widespread moral revulsion and crested on a surge of righteous indignation against what the protesters regarded as the criminality and arrogance of Gilded Age manipulators (Jay Gould: “I can hire one of of the working class to kill the other half.”). Resistance and protest rested the…

Proposition 8, Mormonism, and the Other Fight for Alternative Marriage

By Holly Welker

…n beings can become like God, who is also married and who is literally our spiritual father in heaven: with his many wives, he not only created but procreated the spirit of every person born physically onto this Earth. Proving oneself worthy of the right to do the same thing in another corner of the universe is, in Mormon belief, the goal and purpose of our mortal existence. The film argues that because gay people cannot procreate on their own, th…

Junior Falwell Unmasked Conservatism; Let’s Thank Him For It

By John Stoehr

…n Jones County, Mississippi, declared the Free State of Jones.” By February 1864, Davis despaired: “Public meetings of treasonable character, in the name of state sovereignty, are being held.” Thus states’ rights as an ideology was contradictory and could not mobilize the white South for the long haul. What mobilized the white South was the defense of slavery. Falwell and his new breed of confederate aren’t doing that, of course, but the spirit of…

‘Enchanted New York’ Offers a Journey Through the City’s Magical History — With Some Mystifying Oversights

By Gordon Haber

…ys and everywhere rules over the dense” (his italics). According to Dann, “spirit is the superior agent, so all activity that works directly with spiritual forces and beings is inherently magical.” With such a vague definition, it’s not surprising that the author sees Manhattan as swimming in magic. He starts his journey with George Washington’s 1789 inauguration at Federal Hall. Apparently the first president himself was a magical actor with his…

Persecution, Betrayal, and the Zero Sum Fight for Global Domination — Day 1 of NatCon 2024

By Annika Brockschmidt and Ben Lorber

…short: procreate, and make sure your offspring are being brought up in the spirit of national conservatism. The Ten Commandments—a new flag to rally around In an especially stark example of cognitive dissonance, Hazony declares that, while he himself is “not a fan of litmus tests,” there is one he isn’t just comfortable with, but passionately supports: Putting the Ten Commandments up in public institutions, including schools. You couldn’t possibly…

Mormons Take Even More Activist Message to DC Pride March

By Joanna Brooks

…ons are banding together to share a powerful message, and we hope that other Mormons who may have been previously afraid to show their support for civil marriage equality will see us and feel emboldened to “come out of the closet”. That pioneer spirit is still in our blood, and it’s sorely needed here and now on one of the most critical civil rights issues of our time. So like pioneers, we walk. I will be walking with my wife and two kids. In chur…

The Birth of Un-Cool: How Disgusted Liberals Became Neoconservatives

By Michelle Goldberg

…sts ever did with the Democrats. Nixon hung the social disorder of the late 1960s and 1970s around the necks of his political opponents, but the forces of anarchy and rebellion never had a real foothold in their party. (The notorious violence outside the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago was evidence of how great the divide between the party and the counterculture really was). The same is not true for the forces of social reaction. Where the N…