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Looking at Death: Images of 9/11, Before, During, and After

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…evidence as the advancing Allied armies captured camps. With the armies in Germany were four Life photographers whose pictures are presented on these pages. The things they show are horrible. They are printed for the reason stated seven years ago when, in publishing early pictures of war’s death and destruction in Spain and China, Life stated, “Dead men have indeed died in vain if live men refuse to look at them.” This last line is crucial, and a…

Will Istanbul Ever Be a Part of the European Union?

By Haroon Moghul

…and Turkey clears its hurdles, this country may well be more populous than Germany, making it the largest in the EU. Would Europe be okay with that? The Turks I’ve talked to so far, an admittedly small sample, generally feel Europe will accept them, because it must. Perhaps this is wishful thinking. But perhaps it’s something more: a feeling that they’re going somewhere good, and everyone will have to deal with that reality. How can Turkey not,…

Dispatches From the Site of a Massacre

By Haroon Moghul

…amist government, a Muslim nation that’s been a member of NATO longer than Germany or Spain. Many question whether Turkey has now “abandoned” the West; I wonder whether the question itself is more revealing than any presumed answer. Then I’ll head to Bosnia, where America came to the rescue of a Muslim people who resemble puddles left by a receded tide, stranded in a new Europe that has little room in its imagination for them. My journey is deeply…

Beyond the Miniskirt-Wearing Nun: What Catholic Reform Looks Like

By Colleen McDannell

…d in the book, beginning with my great grandparents’ ancestral villages in Germany and ending with Blessed Trinity in Ocala, Florida. Hours were spent in local libraries and interviewing parishioners. Frequently what I thought provided colorful historical background merely served to distract the readers from the story of the reception of the Council. Since The Spirit of Vatican II is not a memoir, the family details often got the axe. What are som…

Pastors for Perry?

By Sarah Posner

…ening in America today that has ever taken place is that which occurred in Germany in the 1920s through the 1940s.” White’s a hero on the religious right speaking circuit, for, as the Iowa Christian Alliance put it in 2007, his advocacy for “the importance of being unwavering in our commitment to stand for Biblical values and defend truth in an increasingly postmodern society.” The Restoration/Renewal Projects are based on a model developed in Cal…

Papal Profanity: The Vatican’s Pagan Museum

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…inues to value freedom of enquiry, the discovery of new materials, and the promotion of novel points of view. What you sense most clearly at the Vatican Library is that popes come and go, as professors do, but books and the society of learning remain. We are all links in a chain, not just the men who claim an apostolic succession going back to Peter. The fact that this book is on display in that Library now is something for which I’m profoundly gr…

Neither Radical Nor Secular: The West Struggles with the New Islamism

By Blain Auer

…by an Egyptian scholar Hasan al-Banna (1906-1948), the Muslim Brotherhood promoted an anti-colonial ideology meant to safeguard Egyptian society against British and French influence in the Middle East. Guided by the mantra “Islam is the solution,” the Muslim Brotherhood has had a long and tense relationship with Egyptian leadership. Since the revolution, however, influential members of the movement created the Freedom and Justice Party, currently…

2011’s Best Books—
Or Just a Great Reading List

By Haroon Moghul

…captivating essays, each devoted to places like Greece, Ireland, Iceland, Germany, and the United States. His descriptions of how the crisis unfolded differently in different places are powerful, easily digestible, and deeply aggravating. In concluding, you will probably want to go and reoccupy Wall Street. My only qualm comes from the speed with which Boomerang was published. The book would’ve really benefited from more of an attempt to tie toge…

From Confusion to Kardashian: Misreading the Middle East

By Haroon Moghul

…l, against the rest of the planet (a world map only underlines this). Even Germany, a historically strong supporter of Israel, chose to abstain instead of voting no, as it was expected to. Hence an undisputed Israeli military victory was also a diplomatic defeat. Writing for the London Review of Books, Adam Shatz explained Israel didn’t win the short war. (How Gazans saw it deserves consideration.) Britain and France have even mooted withdrawing…