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MIT, Facing Opposition to Extremist Speaker, Might Try Google Next Time

By Murali Balaji

…communities have been particularly targeted by Swamy, and he’s a prolific user of Twitter, underscoring the argument that right-wing septuagenarians and social media don’t mix. While Swamy is a trained economist, and the conference is on the Indian economy, the MIT backlash shows that organizers of such events should probably just use common sense. In the broader scheme of things, Swamy (whose daughter is married to a Muslim) is a fringe politici…

5 Key Moments From the Year of the ‘Exvangelicals’

By Chrissy Stroop

…ed in the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the New Republic, Salon, and other outlets. Exvangelicals were even featured in Newsweek twice, including in the cover article of the print edition for December 21. The biggest exvangelical media breakthrough thus far, however, is surely the CBS special “Deconstructing My Religion,” written and produced by Liz Kineke, and which began running on CBS affiliate stations earlier th…

Puerto Rico Prays for Truth: Reporter David Begnaud’s Sacred Mission

By Spencer Dew

…includes a mass exodus of Puerto Ricans to the mainland) as “so many Fake News stories today….The Fake News Media is out of control!” Faith in Begnaud’s broadcasts—whether fact-checking that, indeed, there was no truck driver strike or documenting how locals in Guayanillas are working to reconnect old pipes to supply water to their communities or providing an update on the bacterial infection Leptospirosis as the probable cause of several recent…

Oh Say, Can You See?: 9/11 Flag Displays and the Flag’s Symbolic Power

By Spencer Dew

…t reported selling 118,000 flags in a single day.” The event even inspired new designs, from the well-known “Flag of Honor” and “Flag of Heroes” featuring the names of the dead to the lesser-known “Thunder Flag,” or Flags specifically commemorating Flight 93, the attack on the Pentagon, or the World Trade Center towers. Such mass-produced flags unique 9/11 artifact flags, such as the one famously raised over Ground Zero by New York City firemen or…

When a Pride March Means Owning the Shame of Racial and Economic Injustice

By Peter Laarman

…orts from coast to coast. The recent contretemps around the opening of the new REBAR in the old G Lounge space in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood is (again) quite typical. Evidently aware that G had finally, after many years, become a rare welcoming downtown space for people of color, the new management made a point of making REBAR distinctly unwelcoming to African American patrons. With Pride month upon us, I want to call out what should be recog…

Orlando Tragedy and the Tangled History of Jihad and Homosexuality

By Ali Olomi

…struggling with his own sexuality as he frequented the nightclub and was a user of gay dating apps. To many this may muddy his motives, but only if one doesn’t understand the history of jihadism. Jihadism is a particular strain of political and social reform that emerges as an anti-colonial movement in the Muslim world. In response to the threat of European hegemony, jihadism resisted violently and through that violence sought to reform the Muslim…

Patriotism and Piety—Not For Conservatives Only

By Ira Chernus

…d get to work. Of course many liberals already do. And there lies the good news. The United States has a rich heritage of liberal (and even radical) political views being promoted by religious people and congregations. Millions of Americans seek sanctity in their lives, humble themselves before a higher power (however they understand it), and realize that liberal policies will foster a safer, more orderly life for themselves and their community. B…

Intolerance in Indonesia Extends to Religious Minorities; Lutheran Church in Norway OK’s Same-Sex Marriage, But Not in Finland; Catholic Church Warns Australian CEOs to Back Off Marriage Equality Support; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…four revellers attempting to hold a banned “rainbow rally” to mark Bengali New Year in the Bangladeshi capital Thursday, amid heightened security threats from Islamists. Officers said they held four young men who joined revellers at the main new year parade at Dhaka University seeking to hold a rally in support of gay rights, which had been denied permission. Authorities had cancelled the rally, being organised by activist group Roopbaan — which s…

Zen and the Art of Zombie Killing: A Buddhist Anti-Tech Manifesto

By Max Zahn

…helps designers use a system of digital triggers and reward loops to hook users, keeping them engaged. It’s a guide to making zombies, not to curing them. There has been backlash to Eyal’s book, mostly focused on consumer protection policies. In Aeon, Cubit co-producer Michael Schulson argues for government regulation of addictive technologies. Slate magazine founder Jacob Weisberg, writing in the New York Review of Books, advocates age restricti…

The Porn Workaround: How Christian Sexuality Websites Avoid Sin

By Kelsy Burke

…are needed to imagine the sexual scene he sets. I interviewed creators and users of Christian sexuality websites and asked whether the sexual nature of the content worried them. Surprisingly, no one seemed very concerned. How are they so confident that these websites are wholesome rather than obscene? The Barna Group has its answer, based on the “Porn Phenomenon” data: “Turns out, it’s more a question of function than form. If it’s used for sexual…