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The Cult of Kurzweil: Will Robots Save Our Souls?

By Robert M. Geraci

…ted). Public policy leaders and corporate officers have attended executive classes and funding has come from major tech companies such as Google and Nokia. Press surrounding the university has been positive, including even an encouraging review from the Chronicle of Higher Education, which suggests that traditional universities have much to learn from SU’s curriculum. What we see is the emergence of a genuine religious tradition. Is it new? Not ex…

Ghana’s LGBT Population Safe From Persecution, But Not Prosecution

By Warren Throckmorton

…rday that current Ghanaian law does not criminalize gays and lesbians as a class of people, but rather “unnatural carnal acts.” She added that the prosecution of people suspected of being gay would require a change in Ghana’s laws. Just over a week after being cited as favoring decriminalization of homosexuality, Lamptey added that she was “misquoted and therefore misrepresented.” Ms. Lamptey, a recent appointment by President John Atta Mills to h…

Tea Party Rhetoric: Literal Slavery Not So Bad

By Julie Ingersoll

…ay most Christians do) is a far cry from equating paying taxes with the actual slavery. Comparing slavery to anything experienced by contemporary mainstream middle-class Americans is absurd, and as long as tea partiers continue to do it they’ll be accused of racism….

As Debt Crisis Escalates, Tea Party Acts in Bad Faith

By Joanna Brooks

…building (and the warehousing of thousands upon thousands of young working-class people of color) replaced actual economic planning as the state’s response to economic restructuring and the loss of our manufacturing sector. The Tea Party response to the nation’s economic situation is to hobble federal power and use national debt as a political gun to the head of the president. It’s nihilism masquerading as end-times revivalism. It’s just plain bad…

How the Religious Left, or Whatever It’s Called, Failed at the Budget Big Game

By Sarah Posner

…acknowledging that cuts would hurt to an even split on the question. These numbers, and the widening confusion they reflect, will come back to haunt the Democrats if and when they next propose a jobs program to help the economy get moving again. The reason why Democrats are losing, as Meyerson and others have pointed out, is that they have relented to using the Republican Manual of Economic Destruction, which holds, essentially, that the national…

Breivik’s Emasculation Paranoia Fueled Vision for Patriarchal “Reforms”

By Julie Ingersoll

…whores,” he includes in his final plans his intentions to “rent” two “high class models” before his attack. As for women he suspects would oppose his views of Islam in Europe, he explores several possible explanations before seemingly settling on the view that women have a deep-seated desire to be dominated: Why is this (that women do not oppose Muslim immigration), considering that there is hardly a single Muslim majority area in the world where…

Taking the Economy Back From the Elites: Blessed Are the Organized

By Nathan Schneider

…t IAF network. How could one do that in a summer and a winter? Rather, the book is an exercise in public philosophy. It is meant to resemble classic works of traveling theory like Tocqueville’s Democracy in America and Martineau’s Society in America. I wanted to bring the philosophy of democratic citizenship down to earth. How has your thinking evolved about your early experience with activism in the 1960s? How are conditions different now, do you…

How Religious Progressives Should Challenge the Anti-State State

By Joanna Brooks

…iberals tend to describe their fears in terms of the erosion of the middle class and the growing divide between rich or poor. But the feeling of worry and insecurity reaches across partisan divides. And it’s something no one—not even our faith leaders—seem to be addressing. Progressive religious leaders miss an opportunity when they don’t engage that sense of worry and responsibility—call it a sacred obligation to do right by our children. As a p…

Bob McDonnell’s Christian Reconstructionist Thesis

By Julie Ingersoll

…reference by a Christian Reconstructionist pastor, Ray Sutton, in a little book written for Gary North’s “Biblical Blueprint” series. The book is written at a level appropriate for a church Bible study. In other places McDonnell makes assertions about the roles of the family or the relationship between family authority and civil government. His citations there are to Bible verses (problematic because first this is a public policy/law degree, not a…

Evidence of Mass Graves in Sudan?

By Frederick Clarkson

…ement in which he emphasized that the victims of these atrocities are “not numbers and statistics” but “my people.” “I ask the world,” he continued. “Open your eyes and your heart for the suffering of the people of South Kordofan, not only Christians, but my Muslim brothers and sisters who are facing the same.” He asked that the international community act to stop the bombing by the SAF; to protect civilians and the witnesses to the crimes describ…