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Burma Bans Time Magazine’s “Buddhist Terror” Issue

By Alan Senauke

…ish response and resistance to outside humanitarian relief drove the death toll higher. Once again, Burma was shamed before itself and the world. By the spring of 2011, after a rigged but nonetheless significant election, the junta stepped down and a period of liberalization blossomed after fifty years of direct oppression. Many of us were heartened by this change and by the return of Aung San Suu Kyi to political life. Hundreds or thousands of po…

Daily News Corrects JR Smith’s “Fool[ish]” Slavery/Black Friday Post… Incorrectly

By Evan Derkacz

…he 80s with more positive connotations (though the annual death and injury toll may take a bite out of the PR, if not the bottom line). J.R. Smith has his demons…and he’s certainly made his share of mistakes — from suspensions for weed, elbowing other players, and untying the shoelaces of opponents, to petulantly refusing to shoot, taking bad shots, and mucking up team chemistry. But calling a man stupid for believing what sounds to me like a whol…

Comparing Gender Transition and Surrogacy to War and Human Trafficking, Vatican’s ‘Dignitas Infinita’ is an Intellectually Embarrassing and Harmful Mess

By Mary E. Hunt

…perhaps a matter of semantics, context, or even translation. But the human toll, especially on trans and other queer people, is simply too big to ignore. Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, later Pope Benedict XVI, was right. The whole house of cards built on sex stereotypes would fall if Rome recognized all persons as equally valued in fact, not only in word. Would that ‘dignity’ applied to all ‘infinitely’ and without conditions imposed by a few who pret…

Billy Graham and the Gospel of American Nationalistic Christianity

By Anthea Butler

…a way to bring the country together after the Kent State massacre and the toll of the Vietnam War. Graham led a prayer service on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Graham’s sermon included checking the “stitches” (on the US flag) of racism, poverty and foreign policy. While Graham and others promoted a strong America, part of the audience engaged in an “Honor America Day Smoke-In,” while white nationalists protested for the white man. While Grah…

Desert Prophet of Salvation Mountain Wants to Share his Life Story

By Lauri Lebo

…abs from New Mexico, he came by Salvation Mountain one day and noticed the toll the harsh life was taking on Leonard. So, he went back to New Mexico, rented out his house, bought a camper and moved to the Colorado Desert where he has lived since, taking care of Leonard, making sure he eats and stays cool. A month ago, just as the temperatures were beginning their climb past the 100-degree mark, Eubank arranged for Leonard to move into the town of…

Monks With Guns: Discovering Buddhist Violence

By Michael Jerryson

…g was the last thing on their minds. The constant fear and violence took a toll on them. Monks talked about the guns they had bought and now kept at their bedsides. Others spoke heatedly about the violent militant attacks on Buddhist civilians and monasteries. Although the cause of the violence is multilayered—owing much to corruption, drug trade, and corporatization—many monks also felt Islam was to blame. In their minds, the conflict was anchore…

Words Matter: The Linguistic Damage of “Going Muslim”

By Daniel Martin Varisco

…s is any gauge, the ugly specter of 9/11 has again taken its psychological toll. This time, instead of the “bad Muslim” being a bearded terrorist called bin Laden, there is a US Army psychologist who was trained to be a healer of military personnel. He happens to have an Arabic ancestry and is Muslim. Prominent American Muslim organizations issued statements right away condemning the murders. Debate in the media is now focused on his motivation. W…

Egypt and the Problem of Religion

By Asma Afsaruddin

…to hunt down and slay their opponents with impunity. The subsequent human toll to date has been described by Human Rights Watch as “the most serious incident of mass unlawful killings in modern Egyptian history”. Certain members of the Muslim Brotherhood on the other hand claim to be carrying out a “jihad” against the military government and have been willing to register their moral outrage by risking death at the hands of the army. Well-establis…

Murdering Sleep: Madoff and MacBeth

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…was pretty, tanned, fit. She has aged fifteen years in as many weeks. The toll must be enormous, and for a woman of her evident pride, excruciating. And she lacks the rhetorical gifts to communicate any of this to us. She has allowed her lawyer to speak on her behalf and has refused to answer any questions, save through him. His prose lacks the poetry a theater-lover might wish for. Is this why I find myself thinking of Shakespeare? You may recal…

The Passion of Katniss: How the Hunger Games Confronts the Trauma of Violence

By Michael Schulson

…elplessness, the dynamics of trauma. “Trauma really is about the moment of freezing,” said Deaton. “What is traumatic is when there’s nothing that can be done.” Collins, he said, sustains a kind of trapped tension throughout the books—that feeling that you’re “never really in a safe place.” After speaking with Deaton, I found myself thinking more about that concept of safety. In contemporary warfare, the battlefield lacks a clearly defined frontli…