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The Shared Assumption Behind Creationism and Anti-GMO in Europe

By Michael Schulson

…s and contributors. Blancke, a postdoctoral fellow at Ghent University, in Belgium, studies the cognitive biases that shape our views of nature. We spoke about creationism in Europe, the influence of the First Amendment, and what anti-GMO and anti-evolution activism have in common. This interview has been edited for clarity and length. Is the appeal of creationism different in Europe than it is in the United States? Creationist beliefs are far mor…

What Penis Theft Tells Us About Belief, Culture, and Our Brains

By Vlad Chituc

…the loss of a spouse or a child or a sibling or a friend, the denial of a promotion or the loss of a job. One man died after the demolition of a hotel where he’d worked for 30 years. Another guy was diagnosed with lung cancer, but it was a misdiagnosis. There was no lung cancer, but he died two weeks later. It functioned almost like a curse. It’s tempting to overstate the power of these things, but you also don’t want to understate the power of t…

Vatican Sexual Abuse Meeting Is Destined to Fail—To Stop the Problem or the Decline

By Mary E. Hunt

…Catholic: Betrayals on abuse have finally driven me away.” She identified herself as “a true-believing, rosary-and-novena-praying graduate of St. Mary’s elementary School, the University of Notre Dame, and l’Université catholique de Louvain in Belgium.” She concludes, “I never thought it would come to this.” Well, it has for many people as the scandals cascade and the churches close. The good news is that no one has to pretend anymore, and that is…

Israel’s Immigration Debate: “Where is the Jewish Spirit?”

By Mati Wagner

…ly 30% of the population (inside the Green Line) is not Jewish, similar to Belgium with a 30% Walloon and a 60% Flemish population or pre-1993 Czechoslovakia (54% Czech and 31% Slovak). Israel’s very raison d’etre is to maintain its Jewish exclusivity. David Ben-Gurion, the Jewish state’s first prime minister expressed this principle during a discussion in the Knesset on the 1950 Law of Return, which ensures automatic Israeli citizenship to any Je…

Reports of the Death of ISIS Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…in violent acts throughout the world, from Nigeria to Indonesia, and from Belgium to Manhattan. The reason why ISIS survives in these different forms is that it was never a single thing in the first place. As I have argued elsewhere, ISIS has been both an organization and a movement, a network of political control as well as a decentralized popularist uprising. The collapse of the political network associated with the geographic control of the Is…

How End-of-Life Issues Are Being Used to Thwart Health Care Reform

By Ann Neumann

…strength of the aid in dying movement in other countries (notably England, Belgium, and Switzerland) has bolstered activists here. Public opinion on end-of-life choice is being tested in Georgia: in March, an undercover investigator lured Final Exit advocates into his home, claiming he wished to kill himself. They were arrested by local authorities and the case is pending hearing. A sentence of five years in jail accompanies conviction of assistin…

When Are You Dead? Science Just Made the Work of Religion a Bit More Difficult

By Arri Eisen

…g enough question. But, now along comes Martin Monti and his colleagues in Belgium. They add a new test for consciousness, applied to fifty-plus folks in a proclaimed vegetative state. Monti et al., using an MRI machine (which monitors for active neurons in the brain), watch these folks’ brains when they are asked a question. And, amazingly a handful of the patients’ brains light up ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ just like your brain or mine would if we were asked…

A Shining City: The Occupy Movement and the American Soul

By Elizabeth Drescher

…brew, Budweiser—that, too, a faded American icon, sold off in 2008 to the Belgium-based multinational, InBev. No, of course, these were not the protesters who have begun to appear in more and more American cities, but keepers of the once-stable base of a certain version of the fabled American Dream: wedding parties. These were queuing up for photos on raised pedestals in the fountains in Kiener Plaza, the park in the shadow of the Arch. Different…

Postcard from the Vatican

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…rom the Catholic hierarchy in various aggrieved countries—from Germany and Belgium, to England and Wales (but not Ireland), to the US and Australia—has been positive. Greater clarity in the relevant Norms and greater transparency in the evaluative procedures are thought to be the first and most important steps toward establishing a more meaningful sense that this Papacy understands the gravity of the crimes over which it stands in judgment. And th…

Ugandan Anti-Gay Fallout: New Laws, New Violence, New Underground Railroad

By Peter Montgomery

…of ‘Third Gender’ Ruling Reaching Universities We noted in April that the Indian Supreme Court had recognized transgender people as a “third gender.” GLAAD notes that the impact of the decision is working its way through the system, and that Delhi University has added “transgender” as a gender option in student and faculty application forms. The Telegraph of India reported that the “ministry of social justice and empowerment has been working to f…