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Pittsburgh Paradox: A City Haunted by God and Steel

…Home Monthly. An Alternative History of Pittsburgh Ed Simon Belt Publishing 2021 Supplementing her income by teaching high school English, Cather would publish her first fiction in Pittsburgh. No piece written during this time was more evocative of the then drab, crowded, dirty, and chaotic city than her perfect 1905 story “Paul’s Case.” Recounting the travails of the sensitive son of a steel executive, the story is rarely interpreted as a spiritu…

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The Quiet Passing of Fundamentalist Mormon Prophet Lynn A. Thompson Suggests Polygamy Recognition Remains a Distant Hope

…Mormon fundamentalist religion, quietly passed away this week on October 5, 2021. ‘Mormon fundamentalist religion’ is a term used by both early leaders of the movement and leaders within the LDS Church to differentiate themselves from those who continued the controversial marital practice. According to the Apostolic United Brethren, they were charged with continuing the “fundamentals” of the faith—namely polygamy—after the LDS Church essentially b…

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Are We Seeing the End of the ‘Good Arabs’ in Israel?

…nder military law when they live amongst a Jewish population. What’s new in 2021 is the emerging political consciousness of Arab Israelis in their quest for recognition, rights, and controlling their own narrative that Israel has tried for decades to erase. Hope is not lost. As riots rage and hatred flares, there are Israeli Jews and Arabs, hundreds, maybe thousands, talking, embracing, and exchanging flowers. Human empathy can sometimes cut throu…

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What Facebook Unwittingly Reveals in its Ban of LifeSiteNews for Covid Misinformation

…nce since 2010, the torrent of bills introduced this year is staggering and 2021 is on track to be the most hostile year on record toward women. These laws are not just interfering with women’s access to abortion care (which would be bad enough!) but are actively harming women by shutting down clinics; using scare tactics to threaten and pressure them into not having abortions; and codifying narrow, theologically-driven ideas about when life begin…

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‘Landmark’ Speech From LDS Leader on LGBTQ Rights and Religious Freedom Was More Like a Sunnier Groundhog Day

…n line with the Church’s refusal to acknowledge that trans people exist, in 2021, the deadliest year on record for transgender people, the exclusion from the speech speaks volumes.) As in the UVA speech, in his 2015 speech Oaks criticized a “county clerk,” reported to have been Kim Davis, for refusing to grant gay marriage licenses based on her religious beliefs. And again, just like in the UVA speech, he stated that “both sides” should seek balan…

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Why We’re Not Prepared to Prosecute White Nationalist Violence

…s in Christchurch, shared his xenophobic manifesto, The Great Replacement, online before livestreaing his rampage via Facebook. Notably, Tarrant would directly influence Patrick Crusius’ horrific act of terrorism targeting Latinos in El Paso, Texas five months later as well as Cruisus’ manifesto. So that these imbalances can be rectified, White nationalist organizations specifically should be recognized as FTOs thereby allowing for the possibility…

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Remembering Rumsfeld: The Defense Department Gospel and America’s Desert Crusade

UPDATE June 30, 2021: With the “known unknown” of death having taken Donald Rumsfeld, America’s poet laureate of disinformation and destruction, and with the sanitized obituaries already pouring in, we at RD were moved to resurrect a classic from the archives that may, perhaps, be a bit more emblematic of the two-time Defense Secretary’s legacy than the “love” and “integrity” for which he seems to have been heralded among his nearest and dearest….

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Into the Darkest Moment of a Dark Year Comes the Saturnalia, a Time for Drinking, Swearing, Gambling, and the Circle of Life

…ic conjurations. We bury 2020, before accepting the regeneration offered by 2021 and the sun’s victory over night. Professor, historian and philosopher Mircea Eliade referred to this phenomenon as a repetition of Cosmos winning over Chaos in mythological cosmogonies. Who is this Saturn then who lent his name to the Saturnalia? Saturn, or Chronos in Greek, was originally said to have ruled over fellow Titans, the primordial divinities, before his s…

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The True Meaning of ‘Law and Order’ Became Painfully Clear on January 6

…h commemorative T-shirts and hoodies that read: “MAGA Civil War, January 6, 2021.” https://twitter.com/misstessowen/status/1346932836704653314 On the day of the rebellion the president told his followers at a rally to “walk down to the Capitol” in protest of the “egregious assault on democracy.” And now it’s been revealed that an FBI office in Virginia had sent a report warning of violence to its Washington office, a warning that was, according to…

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Are We Living in a Simulation? Bad Religion, Bad Media Combine in New Doc, ‘A Glitch in the Matrix’

…e on processing power. It’s just IT best practices. This is Rodney Ascher’s 2021 A Glitch in the Matrix, due out this Friday, February 5. The movie has two distinct threads—the first, a documentary about simulation theory. The second, a crime docudrama about a domestic violence event that involved The Matrix. If the movie has a thesis it is most elegantly framed by Erik Davis, who says something like: the conditions of our collective existence are…

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