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Despite Reversal on Hillary and Hellen Keller, ‘Christian Americanist’ Bias Remains in Texas Curriculum

By David R. Brockman

…available here. The final version, reflecting changes made by SBOE board members, is available here. **For instance, Mike Macnair notes that the origins of trial by jury are “the subject of an extensive debate” (“Vicinage and the Antecedents of the Jury,” Law and History Review 17:3 (Autumn 1999) : 537). François Quintard-Morénas locates the origins of presumption of innocence in the Code of Hammurabi and ancient Roman law, rather than biblical s…

Delillo and Doctor Strange: Orientalist Fantasy is Alive and Well

By Noah Berlatsky

…t a blank wall. Zero K‘s Artis may be an archeologist who has done digs in China, but Jeffrey is not Indiana Jones and Zero K is not a pulp adventure. Yet, throughout the novel, there are hints of the adventure that wasn’t—as if DeLillo’s exhausted vision of slack nothingness is being defined against a refused Eastern exotic. The Convergence is located in Kyrgyzstan; Jeffrey’s trip there is described as a series of blind journeys to indistinguisha…

Well, the Harris-Trump Debate Happened — Now Enjoy Your Freedom and Choose Wisely

By Mary Rambaran-Olm

…onal medical journal, The Lancet, conservative estimates point to more than 180,000 people in Gaza having been killed (both directly and indirectly) in what many experts are calling a genocide expediated by the current US administration. What the debate revealed was that, in their effort to be crowned Israel’s Most Staunch Supporter, Trump and Harris argued over who has the more impressive pro-Israel bonafides. Neither candidate answered the quest…

There’s Nothing Wrong with ‘Prayer’; But There’s Every Reason to be Skeptical of Pence’s Coronavirus Prayer Circle

By Chrissy Stroop

…mative kumbaya. https://twitter.com/BrianZahnd/status/1065753809715150848?s=20 https://twitter.com/BrianZahnd/status/1142942804643057664?s=20 In fairness, Zahnd has called for humane treatment of detained refugees and asylum seekers: https://twitter.com/BrianZahnd/status/1142637240306348032?s=20 Nevertheless, it’s unsurprising that Zahnd came to Merritt’s (and, more or less, Pence’s) defense in the unfolding Twitter storm. It may be that pushbac…

Grab ‘n Go – Investigative Thriller Follows Covert Efforts to Control the Source of Life But Comes Up Short on Analysis

By Peter Laarman

…. The filmmakers want us to understand that the thing many Arab states and China fear most is instability created by food shortages. The African continent encompasses something like 50-60 percent of “undeveloped” arable land, making it the obvious target of a new scramble for Africa that echoes the original European Scramble for Africa of the late 19th century. What’s more, while indigenous Africans clearly have ancestral claims to the land they u…

LGBT’s, Opponents Prep for Vatican Synod; UN Rights Council Adopts LGBT Resolution; Brazil’s Evangelicals Eye Presidency; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…c of Korea, and Vietnam in Asia were states that supported the resolution. China, Kazakhstan and India abstained. Indonesia, Kuwait, Maldives, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates were Asian states that opposed the resolution. The 14 nations that opposed the resolution included Muslim Asian countries. Those in favor of the resolution included Western and Latin American nations, as well as South Africa, the Philippines and Vietnam. “We f…

RDBook: Bernard Avishai’s The Hebrew Republic

By Mitchell Plitnick

…stained indefinitely. Avishai counters by looking at the global situation. China and India already have become the globe’s leading manufacturers. Israel’s main chance at retaining a niche in the global marketplace is its expertise in high-tech. Yet the fact of the matter is that China and India, with their massive populations, have a much bigger human resource pool to draw upon than Israel. If the instability created by constant conflict continues…

Confront Death by Avoiding Fritos: The Gluten Lie, Fad Diets, & Foodie Faith

By Michael Schulson

…hings are distant enough where we are able to romanticize them. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, there’s a huge push within China to reject Traditional Chinese Medicine. This romanticization of what is outside of one’s culture, especially in order to deal with health problems, is something that is really common, and something we ought to avoid. At the same time, our culture’s eating habits seem to hurt people. Is looking outside of our own cultu…

The Brutality of Life for Syrian LGBTs; Saving the Anglican Church by Dissolving It; Backlash to Hindu Gay Wedding Ceremony in Indonesia; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…iscrimination based on sexual orientation when drafting its constitution of 1996 — the first country in the world to do so. Brazil’s post-junta constitutional guarantee of health care as a fundamental human right led the country in the 1990s to become a global pioneer in providing free and universal HIV medications. More recently, Argentina’s path-breaking 2012 law on gender recognition has become the template for transgender rights advocates in m…

Purity Culture is Also About National Purity: Anti-Asian Hate and Purity Culture [Audio]

By Bradley Onishi

…which they are seen as exotic sexual objects. And then for the last year or 13, 14, 15 months, he’s heard nothing less than that the virus can be traced back to Asian people. And I’m sorry, bigots and violent perpetrators in these situations are not nuanced. And so do they care if the Asian people involved are Korean or Vietnamese or Japanese, et cetera? They don’t. What they hear is their president, Donald Trump and other leaders saying things li…