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Besides a Love of Chinese Food on Christmas, Why “JewAsian” Unions Work

By Helen Kiyong Kim and Noah Samuel Leavitt

…tunate to be able to include nearly everything for which we had strong and reliable data. Originally, we had thought that we would explore the civic and political engagement among JewAsian couples, but ultimately we weren’t able to sustain those questions through all of our interviews—largely because our interviewees wanted to talk about many other aspects of their lives! Having said that, many of the millennial grown children of JewAsian families…

A Long History of Blaming the Jews

By Gordon Haber

…ian) terms does not always lead to violence, but such rhetoric is a pretty reliable warning sign. Nirenberg himself seems to agree when he points out that in our age, “millions of people are exposed daily to some variant of the argument that the challenges of the world they live in are best explained in terms of ‘Israel.’” If there is one weakness in this book, it is that there is a slight vagueness or mushiness on this point. But only this point…

Christian Nationalists and the Holy Gun Crusade

By Thomas Lecaque

…hey’re selling. As their website says: Spike’s Tactical created a balanced reliable rifle that would bring an excellent fighting rifle to people of all abilities and resources. The every man fighting rifle. We named it Crusader and engraved Psalm 144:1 on the lower receiver to hoist the flag of our faith and to make a statement, reminding our customers that we are with you. The war is here. We have a duty to defend our homeland and our way of life…

Syria Receives Sudanese Weapons on Ukrainian Aircraft via Qatar and Turkey

By Haroon Moghul

…e, lauded the missile’s performance. “The kills are proof that the FN-6 is reliable and user-friendly, because rebel fighters are generally not well trained in operating missile systems,” the newspaper, Global Times, quoted a Chinese aviation analyst as saying. The successful attacks on Syria’s helicopters by Chinese missiles brought “publicity” that “will raise the image of Chinese defense products on the international arms trade market,” the new…

Pope Francis, Breeding Bunnies and Ideological Colonization

By Patricia Miller

…the reason most people don’t use natural family planning is that it’s not reliable. It’s how you end up pregnant eight times. And for anyone who thinks that it’s a big breakthrough for the pope to promote “responsible parenthood,” here’s Pope Paul VI in Humanae Vitae: Married love, therefore, requires of husband and wife the full awareness of their obligations in the matter of responsible parenthood, which today, rightly enough, is much insisted…

A Neoconservative Jesus, Certified Kosher

By Ira Chernus

…ness: “The American Evangelical community has proven the most stalwart and reliable friend of Israel in the United States.” Christians and Jews are now “brothers” because “together they confront the implacable foe of Islamist terrorism.” Later Boteach writes that “Christian Evangelicals have proven themselves stalwart when it comes to foreign policy, fighting terrorists, and standing up to evil.” An estimated 60% of the US armed forces are evangel…

Creationism 3.0: Meet Intelligent Design’s Huckster

By Michael Schulson

…ures, one demonstrating, in the organization’s words, that the Bible “is a reliable historical document,” and the other arguing “that our universe was created by an intelligent designer—and the most logical candidate is the God of the Bible.” On the website of the Ligonier Ministries, who sell copies of these lectures, Meyer is described as having “spent 20 years researching cosmology, biology and metaphysics to determine the existence of a creato…

“Pro-Life” Has Officially Lost its Meaning

By Patricia Miller

…n: can anyone really be called pro-life anymore, and is this label still a reliable indicator of someone’s abortion politics? The term “pro-life” dates back to the Catholic origins of the anti-abortion movement, when a Los Angeles bishop coined the phrase “right to life” for one of the country’s first anti-abortion organizations, the Right-to-Life League of Southern California. The Catholic bishops’ conference created the National Right to Life Co…

Trump Order A ‘Death Sentence’ For Some LGBT Refugees? Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…nding in the way of LGBT voters actually voting for Marine Le Pen in large numbers. But her anti-immigrant, anti-EU position — coupled with a more center-left economic policy that supports France’s robust social safety net — is pulling voters from left-wing constituencies to her side. Courting LGBT voters remains a high-wire act, because beneath Le Pen’s march to victory is a simmering internal battle that could build into a true revolt from withi…

Atlanta Falcons “Defend the Dome”: Football, Religion, and Existential Power

By Kenny Smith

…dently prescribes the regular viewing of one’s favorite violent sport as a reliable means to individual well-being and social harmony. “No fight fan could be a criminal,” he tells us, “for in his favorite sport he finds the most thorough purgation of the more violent instincts.” Religion scholar James McBride understands football fandom as a highly complex ritual in which male viewers collectively displace their identity onto players and teams tha…