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The Key to Understanding the Federalist Society Isn’t Originalism — It’s This 800-Year Old Tradition

By Peter Schwartz

…mise. The Federalist Society is pre-political (but definitely not nonpolitical) because the purpose of the organization is to nourish and establish within law students, in the infancy of their professional careers, the intellectual preconditions for future political and legal activity premised firmly on these “civilizational” values. What we discover beneath the floorboards, then, are the beams and joists of a systematic moral philosophy and theol…

The Resurgence of Right-Wing Anti-Semitic Conspiracism Endangers All Justice Movements

By Ben Lorber

…ix months left one dead and three injured at a Chabad synagogue outside of San Diego. The online manifesto published on a far-right message board by the alleged shooter, 19-year-old John T. Earnest, makes it clear that the white nationalist ideology that inspired him is also implicated in a number of other recent attacks, including the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting in October, the killing of 49 Muslim worshippers last month in New Zealand, and the…

Aung San Suu Kyi: The Verdict is Unfair

By Juliane Schober

…y curtailed by the regime. A Buddhist’s Engagement with Civil Society Aung San Suu Kyi’s advocacy of socially engaged Buddhism has lent moral authority to her quest against the military regime. Her message articulates modern political values: liberalism, human rights, nonviolent resistance, and the empowerment of individuals. Suu Kyi has commented on her practice of meditation as a source of spiritual strength and as an integral part of her social…

Atheist Nazis? The Pope’s Cheap Atonement

By Susannah Heschel

Adam Clayton Powell called it “cheap grace,” but we might call it “cheap atonement”: the effort by sinners to select which sins to acknowledge and repent. Pope Benedict XVI ended his heavily protested visit to England with a heartfelt apology for German bombings of England during the Battle of Britain; though he refused to accept Christian responsibility for the Holocaust, blaming it instead on pagans and atheists. Given that Cardinal Walter Kasp…

Palin’s Israel Trip

By Sarah Posner

…an electoral lens, she is, I suspect, far more comfortable with an evangelical approach to her trip. She’s a Christian Zionist, to be sure, and like many of her co-religionists, the Jews are adorable pawns in God’s plan. Spiritually speaking, she’d be far more at home with a Christian tour. And if she is trying to appeal to Jewish Republicans, I’m guessing she thinks the trip alone is enough to make them happy, and that she doesn’t need to cozy up…

RD News Round-Up—September 29, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…n the polling,” said Yes on 8 spokeswoman Jennifer Kerns. According to the San Diego Union-Tribune, “Kerns acknowledged that while opposition to same-sex marriage has softened in recent years, polls don’t reflect the extent of the lingering opposition. ‘People, when called by a pollster, tend to be more politically correct when talking to another human being than when they step into the voting booth and vote their conscience,’ she said.” Meanwhile…

RD News Round-Up—Oct.14, 2008

By Bill Berkowitz

…lam’; and More The Yes on 8 campaign launched its first ad, which features San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom making a speech saying that same-sex marriages are going to happen “whether you like it or not!” It also features Richard Peterson, a law professor at Pepperdine University, claiming that “if Prop 8 fails, people could be sued for their personal beliefs, churches opposed to same-sex marriage could be threatened with losing their tax-exempt s…

Glenn Beck’s Cheap Grace

By Karyn Carlo

…race and salvation, as Beck tries to do but, again, that would not be biblical. Both John the Baptist and Jesus made the call to repentance from both personal and social sin, a central part of their preaching. Without this repentance, there is no grace and no salvation. Beck then goes on to equate Cone’s black theology with Marxism. Here he is wildly off base and his unfortunate tendency to take everything he doesn’t like, slap it on to his chalkb…

Sex Abuse in the Catholic Church: When Adults are Victims

By Kathryn Joyce

…he Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley, California, and the Mexican-American Catholic College in San Antonio, was also the 2006 recipient of the Archbishop Gomez Pastoral Leadership Award, as a Church leader “whose actions embody Catholic teaching.” At a $100-plate dinner to benefit Centro San Juan, Hernandez was feted by the award’s namesake, Archbishop José H. Gomez of the Los Angeles Archdiocese, as well as Archbishop Chaput. In the Archdioce…

Shocked by Aung San Suu Kyi’s Insensitivity to Ethnic Cleansing? Don’t Be.

By Michael Jerryson

…d: Buddhism, Politics, and Violence, I explore this phenomenon. One of the causes for Aung San Suu Kyi’s blindness to the current violence is her fetishist disavowal of the Rohingya. In his book Violence, Slavoj Žižek argues that people have a tendency to overlook a particular group or community in our ethical systems. It is a conscious effort—so persistent it acts as a fetish—to avoid reflection and consideration. Everyone has blinders within the…