What Really Was Wrong With the Ben Carson Interview on the End-Times
…ld shoot for peace. So why are so many people freaking out? Because they’re conditioned to. But Ben Carson defies your end-times freak-out….
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Updated: G-O-D Plays a Bit Part in First GOP Debate
…ew about the charity’s giving to Planned Parenthood. That’s a little thumbs-on-the-scale, don’t you think? I admittedly did not watch the undercard of the Republican debates last night. I had more important things to do, namely preparing for the main event by creating a quick-paste shortcut for each of the candidates’ names and fixing a stiff gin and tonic. Apparently, it wasn’t stiff enough. After two hours, there were still nine doughy white guy…
Read MoreAsk a Muslim: No, Dear Reader, Sex-Obsession Isn’t Confined to Muslim Nations
…others from defending themselves. I’m tired of people talking about Dar al-Harb and Dar al-Islam as if it’s the only instance in the world of discriminatory politics. (It is, by the way, and I don’t agree with it, and don’t believe it is grounded in Islam—it’s a product of the post-Prophetic era.) For a simple example of this, look at the Permanent Five of the United Nations Security Council. Is it reasonable that four of the five are overwhelmin…
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Strangest Hot Take of the Day: Why Evangelicals Like Trump
…it is there, although by no means a majority), Brody portrays Trump as a no-holds-barred honest broker and, therefore, victim of the media. That’s why, he says, evangelicals can relate. “Donald Trump operates in a world of absolutes,” Brody writes. “A world of right and wrong; a world of winners (him) and losers (McCain, Perry, etc); a world of put up or shut up (literally).” “And what does Trump get for speaking out so boldly without holding back…
Read MoreCompassion for AZ Shooter?
…nderstanding of what compassion is truly about. As Armstrong writes in her new book, Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life, “’compassion’ derives from the Latin patiri and the Greek pathein, meaning ‘to suffer, undergo, or experience.’ So ‘compassion’ means ‘to endure [something] with another person,’ to put ourselves in somebody else’s shoes, to feel her pain as though it were our own and to enter generously into his point of view.” We have no tro…
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Pew and the Jews: “So What?”
…ons. We were curious to note that many Jews are cool with the idea of Jesus-as-Messiah—even more curious as to how that question made it onto the list. (And yes, we’re working on that story as we speak.) But in the end, we decided to go above our own heads and ask an eminent group of writers, scholars and activists to respond to the brief prompt: “So what?” Their answers, linked below, tease unexpected meaning from Pew’s results. _________________…
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Vatican Entangled in Women’s Issues
…tual conference document is more or less unintelligible, written in passive-voice Vatican-speak that sounds like a medieval monk who’s just woken up and encountered the modern world: For, in the past (but only in the past?) women had to fight to exercise their professions or take on decisional roles that appeared to be exclusively meant for the male world. So the areas of reflection are extended throughout the different cultures, they transform an…
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The Social Science Animal: Brooks Argues for Emotion over Reason
…mnist, lover of sweeping generalizations and grand moralisms—has written a new book that is, in many respects, deeply nostalgic for (and reverential toward) this old humanist tradition, though he’s updated his humanism to be more in-tune with today’s elite American values. Neither does he accept one of the classical presumptions that many humanists borrowed from Aristotelian thought: that the human is the one animal who uses reason—the rational an…
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The Hypocrisy in Protests against Ultra-Orthodox in Israel
…-sufficiently-modest-dress,” including the most widely-publicized case of 8-year-old Na’ama Margolis, whose story was told on Israeli TV. The only bright spot may have been the rare instance of secular-religious unity in opposition to these acts of religious zealotry, although I have found the sanctimonious and self-righteous response of the modern religious (dati) community hypocritical. The same Modern Orthodox now protesting for religious freed…
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You’re Either Committing Ethnic Cleansing or You’re Not
…a near approximation of Bosnia, though it subtly lacks in local color and feel (too much Austro-Hungarian and not enough Ottoman). But it is the intention here that matters, and such quibbles are minor. The bigger problem is that Blood and Honey seems to be several movies, few of which fit together, or even know what to do with each other—kind of like its two main characters, whose story is introduced too early, whose romance isn’t believable, an…
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