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Rarefied Islamophobia: When Americans Duplicate the European Cultural Talk

By Jocelyne Cesari

…factor unique to Islam but by specific conditions of labor migration and structural changes in the labor market over the last 25 years. These changes in turn led to the deterioration of significant parts of the working classes across Europe. The various problems and implications of these topics have been subsumed under general analyses of Islam. Many scholars have unpacked and illuminated these intertwined subjects. But Caldwell ignores surveys an…

Far-Right Evangelicals And The Campaign Against Obama

By Frank Schaeffer

…eform proposals. The other kind of evangelicals are the sort of people who run outfits like The Fellowship Foundation and the National Prayer Breakfast, and run around speaking at Evangelical colleges, think tanks, law schools and so forth, working to influence government and world affairs directly while bypassing the democratic process. How to deal with this? A few thoughts: First, all religious organizations should to be taxed in exactly the sam…

RDBook: Power Belongs to God

By Nathan Schneider

…een their Washington friends and foreign allies, who usually happen to be brutal dictators. Despite lacking so much as a Web site, the group is an indisputable presence on the Washington scene. It helped to broker the not-necessarily-intuitive alliance between free-market economics and conservative religion that rolled back the New Deal and built a Republican majority. A handful of Congressmen from both parties live in a townhouse that The Family…

Of Zionism and Anti-Zionism: The Ultra Orthodox and the Settler Movement in Israel

By Shaul Magid

…usively on issues of security but peppered with religious rhetoric (i.e. Jerusalem as the “eternal capital of the Jewish people” and referring to “the biblical land of Israel”). And the settlers have begun to use the language of “security”—even though it is not central to their ideology—because it sells in the world, especially to American Jews, who constitute a crucial support group. Second, the Russian immigration in the late 1980s brought a lar…

The Pope in My Pocket; We Are All Dilettantes Now

By Michael A. Elliott

…pe in my pocket. Released in late May, the H2Onews iPhone app is the first news application approved by the Vatican. With a touch of my phone I can now get excerpts from the sermons of his Holiness, news from the Vatican, and even the Sunday Gospel. Sporting a sleek interface and a choice of eight languages, the Pontiff has gone 2.0. This might sound like the Vatican is out on the cutting edge, but H2Onews was actually a little slow out of the gat…

Robot Kills a Worker in Germany… Who’s to Blame?

By Hilary Ledwell

…so sure. Speculation that the robot is, or should be, to blame has already run rampant online. This isn’t just idle speculation on Twitter. It’s a reflection of much deeper fears about the world to come. It was the cyborg! If you’ve ever kicked a TV or mumbled threats at your computer, you’re familiar with how easy it is to assign human agency to unconscious machines. We seem especially prone to anthropomorphizing them when they frustrate us. My t…

V-Day: An Arrow in the Heart

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…dern holiday, the Roman festival of the Lupercalia, held on the Ides of February (February 13-15). Recall Shakespeare once again: it was during the Lupercalia, he imagined, that Julius Caesar [TK] it three times. Just one month later, during the Ides of March, he lost his life in a bloody hail of daggers. Loving is linked to dying. While we know little about it, the Lupercalia seems to have been a curious Latin festival with mysterious Greek origi…

Paul Weyrich, “Godfather” of Modern Conservative Movement, Dead at 66

By Bill Berkowitz

…need new ideas to advance, but institutions to give muscle and skeletal structure to a political movement for liberty. That is how Paul Weyrich changed the world for the better.” Norquist added that Weyrich “brought leaders of various freedom impulses together. Most of the successes of the conservative movement since the 1970s flowed from structures, organizations, and coalitions he started, created, or nurtured.” The Rev. Louis P. Sheldon of the…

RDBook: Christian Culture Clash

By Krista Kapralos

…ly one in three people in the northwest. You really have an open religious market. However, most people believe in God and are generally spiritual. About a quarter of the people are evangelical, and about a quarter of Northwesterners have no religion, so the two subgroups are people who are non-religious and people who are intensely religious. Those who do go to church are more loyal and more intentional and conscious about their faith. That’s tru…

I Was Nearly Seduced by David Brooks’ Reasonable Analysis

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ording to David Brooks, there are two dominant models of analysis: number crunching and psychology. Greenspan was a number cruncher, says Brooks, and unfortunately, human psychology caught up with him. Greenspan saw real estate values continuing to soar with no end in sight and allowed himself to be persuaded that they would never stop rising, and certainly would never fall. So he never had to think about petty psychological realities, like a cris…