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Why David Sometimes Wins: What We Must Learn From Cesar Chavez

…in the improbable presidential campaign of Barack Obama. His long-awaited book, Why David Sometimes Wins: Leadership, Organization and Strategy in the California Farm Worker Movement, is a very readable analysis of exactly how powerless Mexican Americans, led by the legendary Cesar Chavez, overcame impossible odds to form the United Farm Workers union while capturing the heart and the imagination of the nation. But Ganz wants to do much more than…

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The Story of a Post-Holocaust Group Seeking Revenge Against Nazis is Part of the Story of Israel Itself

…,” gangsters like Meyer Lansky hit the heights of organized crime through bootlegging, grasping power just as fascism was ascendant. In Swastika Nation, which chronicles the rise of the German-American Bund in the 1930s, Arnie Bernstein recounts how much of the Jewish criminal underworld shifted its focus to the Nazis, using their unique skill sets to attack fascist leaders, shut down gatherings, and become a defensive force against the Bund. Lans…

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Romania’s “Witch Tax”: Magic Meets Bureaucracy

…sion had cost Romania a qualifying match against Denmark for the European Football Championship. The hex was not fatal, but was intended to cost Meier his ability to whistle. About four in five Romanians are Orthodox Christians. Unlike self-described witches in the United States and Western Europe, Romanian witches do not see their practice as a religious tradition distinct from Christianity. Instead their rituals appear to be syncretic, combining…

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The Theo-logic Behind Pat Robertson’s Offense

…deeper issue. Christians are not offended simply because Robertson showed poor taste. Nor are they offended because Robertson is cold and callous—it is because he reveals a perfectly plausible interpretation of Christianity. Shocked Christians respond with incredulity that Robertson could be audacious enough to ‘explain’ such a tragic situation. Yet in his judgment, Robertson shows a consistency of belief that the offended lack. American Christian…

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How the Logic of Law Enforcement Leads to Spying on Muslims

…o the Times first. Samuel Rascoff, a Professor at New York University’s School of Law (and former head of intelligence analysis for the NYPD), has an op-ed in today’s edition, “Uncle Sam is No Imam”: The strategic problem is easier to see: Is the government a credible authority on Islamic interpretation? Based on the results of comparable efforts in Britain, the answer is a resounding no. Simply put, young Muslim men in the thrall of radical teach…

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The Lament of the Christian Disney Dad: What Evangelicals Really Hate About ‘Wokeness’ at Disney World

…cently made or announced: allowing Cast Members (employees) to display tattoos and earrings, removing a racist character from the Jungle Cruise, removing a scene depicting sexual violence from Pirates of the Caribbean, and retheming Splash Mountain after The Princess and the Frog (2009) rather than the racist 1946 film Song of the South. He wants to believe in magic, but wokeness is breaking the spell. Unlike his predecessors, though, VanBoskerck’…

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The Strategic Caution of the Muslim Brotherhood

…victory of the Islamic Revolution. In a swift response, the Muslim Brotherhood rejected the comparison: The MB regards the revolution as the Egyptian People’s Revolution not an Islamic Revolution… asserting that the Egyptian People’s Revolution includes Muslims, Christians, from all sects and political groups. The Brotherhood’s eagerness to distinguish Egypt from Iran comes as no surprise given the recent flurry of articles speculating on whether…

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The Vatican is the Magic 8-Ball of “Family Life”

…this fall’s family life summit. After much fanfare, including a much-ballyhooed survey of Catholic dioceses around the world, the Vatican has concluded that the real problem with its teachings is, wait for it, people just don’t know about them: The People of God’s knowledge of conciliar and post-conciliar documents on the Magisterium of the family seems to be rather wanting, though a certain knowledge of them is clearly evident in those working in…

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Is it Blasphemous to Describe Science as “Magic”?

…arguments against it. The “God Particle” was coined by Leon Lederman in a book detailing how essential the Higgs is for the Standard Model of Physics. The press subsequently took this idea and ran with it, Goldberg argues, in yet another example of savvy-science-promotion gone awry. For Goldberg and others, supernatural language is a tactic scientists use to communicate complicated ideas to laypersons such as friends, journalists, and the politici…

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Nikki Haley’s Slavery Omission Typifies the GOP’s Tragic Pact with White Supremacy

…w Deal” coalition that had helped Democrats since the days of Franklin D. Roosevelt. This change didn’t happen overnight—it took years. Under Eisenhower, the GOP poured more resources into the South, establishing party structures in places of the country where there had never been a Republican on the ballot before. Goldwater was the first Republican presidential nominee who showed that the seemingly impossible could be done: that the “Old South” c…

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