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After Ferguson: America Must Abandon “Sick Christianity” at Ease With Violence

…that seduction or that formation. In fact we helped create it on both the frontier and the plantation, and bound to this seduction and formation has been our blind commitment to abstract ideas of law and order. Law and order have always been hallowed words on the American landscape filled with two abiding realities: our racial animus and our obsession with property. We repeat the mistake continuously in this country of trying to address our racia…

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Hobby Lobbying: How Corporations Got Consciences

…de care to miners, railroad workers and ranchers on the ragged edge of the frontier with little respect to their religion or even their ability to pay. Even some non-Catholics voiced fears that rights of their local hospitals were being violated. “I am not a Catholic, but I think people of all faiths should see this as a threat to our religious freedom,” one woman wrote to the Billings Gazette. And there was a potentially more explosive issue hove…

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Gandhi, his Grandson, Israel, and the Jews

…a 1937 open letter to Gandhi that was published in New York City’s Jewish Frontier Magazine, spoke both of American Blacks and European Jews as “untouchables.” “You know that though many years have passed since slavery was abolished, the practical emancipation of Negroes in the United States is far from complete.” Aware that Gandhi had spoken out on the denial of Negro rights in the United States, Greenberg asked Gandhi to protest against the dir…

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Presidential Pep Talks and the Religion of Fear: How did an Uncontroversial Speech Become a National Controversy?

…d. And in response to the controversy and the barrage of outraged parental phone calls, many school systems decided it was safest not to air the speech at all. Others required that alternative activities be arranged for children whose parents refused to permit their kids to be subjected to an encouraging presidential pep talk. The evening after the talk, the local news station I was watching aired a report on the event, complete with footage of a…

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The Right Questions Kamala Harris’ Blackness — Yet as Long as She Holds Any Power She’ll Always Be Too Black for Them

…ategy memo she’s painted as: a middle-aged hag who lives in a cave with her 800 cats; unqualified to lead because her womb’s as empty as Jesus’ tomb; and hatching a master plan to suppress the aromatic scent of electricity. If I weren’t merely an outside agitator, I’d be sure to only cast my ballot for someone who’s birthed their own children, just like all the previous presid— wait, what? Anyway, Kamala cackles like Satan or something. You see, i…

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Double Helix: Who’s Your Daddy?

…g like hotcakes. According to the Web site, complete with the iconic 1-800 number and attractive female operator with headset, the IDENTIGENE test is “Fast. Accurate. Confidential.” It’s not the speed, accuracy, nor confidentiality that worry me so much (although plenty of problems lurk therein). It’s more the information itself, its power, and in what context it is received. Personally, I’m not too interested in the test for myself. I know who my…

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Policing Academic Freedom: A Book, a Controversy, and the Ominous Aftermath

…in books published The Hindus: An Alternative History by Wendy Doniger. The 800-page book includes over 50 pages of references and covers a vast history that spans 50 million years—a magnum opus from a highly acclaimed scholar of Hindu traditions. A few months after The Hindus was published in the United States, it was favorably reviewed in the New York Times. The award-winning Indian essayist Pankaj Mishra praised the work as “staggeringly compre…

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The Santa Killer: Death Imitating Art

…he Overlook Press, 2008. Kernberg, O F. “A Psychoanalytic Classification of Character Pathology.” Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 18, no. 4 (October 1970): 800-22. Moreno, J. L. The Essential Moreno: Writings on Psychodrama, Group Method and Spontaneity. Springer Pub Co, 1987….

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My God, David Brooks

…t is almost invisible outside the academic world because the text is nearly 800 pages of dense, jargon-filled prose.” Rest assured, we do not need to read Taylor for ourselves because David Brooks can be trusted. His ongoing effort to distill for us the density of jargon is a choice well-honed. The result: a column that we have chosen to read (again, wisely) and, moreover, a readerly choice that becomes a sign to others and ourselves that we are a…

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Covering Religion in The New Year: The Atheist Bus And More

…the atheist bus adverts, said: ‘You wait for ages for an atheist bus, then 800 come along at once. I hope they will brighten people’s days and make them smile on their way to work.’” So will it be a year of smiles for the faithless—or, perhaps, the faithful? A lot depends on the economy. Religion didn’t fare particularly well during the Great Depression. Despite the seeming need for alternative realities, church attendance didn’t swell in the 193…

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