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Talking to Noah Screenwriter On Being an Eco-Wacko

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…re are so many denominations—there is a value of literalism, an exactness, word for word. In Judaism, we interpret, engage, ask questions of the text. The emphasis is on “an interpretation” rather than “the interpretation”. The text is a living thing. It’s a culture of grappling with the text, it’s dynamic. Darren and I come from this world, so that’s how we approached it. But it’s also more freeing as an artist. One thing that you definitely got…

Apocalyptic Rhetoric at Moms for Liberty Summit Illustrates Political Challenge of 2024

By Chrissy Stroop

…has decayed” as a result of the Left’s ideology, which makes an anti-woke crusade necessary so that our society will be “rooted in truth” (the existence of transgender people was his primary example of something “not true”). A common theme was the supposed indoctrination of children into “woke” beliefs, with teachers varyingly portrayed as heroic and as part of a villainous cabal devoted to withholding information from parents about their own chil…

Battle of Antisemitism Definitions is Actually a Proxy War For Criticism of Israel

By Joshua Shanes

…“liquidationist” and is explicitly equated with the “call for Israel’s destruction” in this worldview. Only solutions that advocate Jewish supremacy are legitimate in this mindset. These are Orwellian distortions that obfuscate the distinction between a call for equality and the most extreme rhetoric of Hamas, and responds to any call for human rights with reference to security threats or whataboutisms—or they call themselves moderate because they…

How Not to Talk to the NAACP

By Joanna Brooks

…the Houston NAACP crowd a warmed-over stump speech. In which he used the word “Obamacare.” Which we all know is a fighting word, even if you follow it with a quote from Frederick Douglass. What happened to the part about “who I truly am in my heart”? There was no real graciousness today, and there were no risks taken. Except showing up at the NAACP convention, which pretty much every GOP presidential candidate does, and should. After all, there…

UK Christian Mag Argues for “Separate but Equal” Unions

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ven if DOMA were repealed and all the benefits were the same reserving one word for heterosexuals and another word for gays and lesbians continues to make the distinction that one is “better” and one is “less than” the other. If they truly are the same — if there is a difference with no distinction — then it’s all one thing: marriage. One other point made in this editorial brings that message home. There is no getting around it: the natural order…

No Longer At Sea: Kate Bornstein Talks Scientology

By Kristin Rawls

…yful enough for them to deal with. Also, when I wrote my last book, Hello Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks and Other Outlaws, I knew my audience consisted of people who were suicidal or nearly so. That audience stayed with me, and I knew I couldn’t pull any punches with them. These are kids whom I consider my children, and they consider me their “auntie.” If they picked up a book, and they saw there was no sex in it or t…

What’s in an “Om”?: How Women are Transforming Yoga

By Meera Subramanian

…e girl with tattoos and sweats, giving you a way out. “Do an Om!” For those interested in seeing the film for yourself, there’s a Yogawoman screening in New York City this Thursday, and more in theaters and living rooms around the world….

Appeals Court Eviscerates Notre Dame’s Objections to Contraception Accommodation

By Patricia Miller

…tion “is not contraception at all.” In conclusion, Posner writes: The very word ’accommodation’ implies a balance of competing interests; and when we compare the burden on the government or third parties of having to establish some entirely new method of providing contraceptive coverage with the burden on Notre Dame of simply notifying the government that the ball is now in the government’s court, we cannot conclude that Notre Dame has yet establi…

What Role do Feelings Play in Conspiracy, Racism and Climate Denial? Welcome to Phoning It In, Episode 1

By Megan Goodwin

…ting too much. MPG: DOS: The initial version of this manuscript was 157-thousand words. [Explains that the press agreed but wanted it cut to 100-thousand words.] I bargained her up to 110 by—and I’m not joking here—saying “I deliberately wrote this book using shorter words. I did a word count on the introduction of my first book with Duke, and then I did a character account, and I divided the character count by the word count to come up with the a…

The Magic of the Higgs Boson Particle

By Yoni Pasternak

…tiful is the universe I have made. Language is generally utilitarian: construct a word too bulky or a concept too vague and, unless it has other redemptive linguistic goods to offer, it is unlikely to be adopted. And if a word or concept already adopted is deemed inconvenient or impractical by a large enough section of a linguistic community, it will likely fall into disuse. From the looks of the (impressionistic) evidence cited above, it seems th…