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The Critical Role of Jews in Defining Modernity

By Chad Alan Goldberg

…d perhaps help to emancipate us from their grip. Modernity and the Jews in Western Social Thought Chad Alan Goldberg U. of Chicago Press May 2017 What’s the most important take-home message for readers? Why study the history of social thought? There are different answers to this question, but for me, it has an emancipatory purpose. By reflecting critically on the categories, concepts, and principles that we have inherited from the past, we become…

Dispatches From the Rhodian Shore: A (Tough) Love Letter to Religious Studies

By Todd LeVasseur

…book is similarly dry, but oh so full of important facts and syntheses of Western (and of course, sadly, male) intellectual thought about interactions between humans and nature. Glacken condenses 2000 years of Western thought about nature to three themes, the third of which I’m interested in here: “the idea of man [sic] as a geographic agent.” First, let’s jump ahead to data points about human impact on the natural world that Glacken didn’t have…

Ahmadinejad Aside, Anti-Racism Conference Was Deeply Flawed

By Austin Dacey

…racial superiority or hatred” and the participation in organizations that “promote and incite racial discrimination.” Although the United States ratified ICERD in 1994, it made a so-called reservation that exempts it from these illiberal requirements: The Constitution and laws of the United States contain extensive protections of individual freedom of speech, expression and association. Accordingly, the United States does not accept any obligation…

Norway Massacre Suspect Anders Behring Breivik, Hitler, & the Jerusalem Post Editorial

By Sarah Posner

…rant when they obsess so much over the Jews. There is no Jewish problem in Western Europe (with the exception of the UK and France) as we only have 1 million in Western Europe, whereas 800,000 out of these 1 million live in France and the UK. The US on the other hand, with more than 6 million Jews (600% more than Europe) actually has a considerable Jewish problem. But please learn the difference between a nation-wrecking multiculturalist Jew and a…

Rick Santorum’s Crusade To Save “Christendom”

By Sarah Posner

…director of the conservative Ethics and Public Policy Center’s Program to Promote and Protect America’s Freedom. In that role, he made combatting “jihadis” a focal point of his activities. But Santorum never let go of his old culture war issues — in fact they became a central facet of his ideology against Islam. I had the chance to interview Santorum in late 2007, as the Republican presidential primary was in full swing, and the candidates were t…

It Is Time For American Orthodox Christians to Protest Russia’s Persecution of LGBT

By Katherine Kelaidis

…le. This 400-year period of occupation was only temporarily interrupted by Western Christian empires vying with the Ottomans. When in the 19th century, Serbian and Greek nationalist movements began to throw off the Turkish yoke, independence was often accompanied by interference from the modern Western powers, such as Great Britain, France and the United States. Throughout this entire time, Russia was actually the exception for the most part. At l…

“Just Like a Submissive Woman”

By Shabana Mir

…issive women’s clothing has to be controlled by liberal laws in democratic Western nations? Socialist MP Maria Roth-Bernasconi was irritated that Calmy-Rey may have angered Iranian feminists, and Social Democrat MP Liliane Maury Pasquier complained that the minister should have shown solidarity with “the women who fight against wearing the headscarf.” Sigh. Let secularized Christendom discover, once and for all, that Muslims don’t have the equival…

Was Ghana Anti-Gay Scare Just Politics?

By Warren Throckmorton

…rganization (NGO) had registered 8,000 gays, lesbians and bisexuals in the Western and Central regions of the country which, if accurate, would represent a significant increase over past estimates. Within days, religious groups united to call on the Ghanaian government for action against sexual minorities. Both Christian and Muslim coalitions have declared that they will not support a politician who favors relaxing the laws covering homosexuality….

What Do Islamophobes Have in Common with the Taliban?

By John Feffer

…grew out of a particular tradition: namely the key texts and histories of “Western civilization.” It’s rather shocking to realize that the stereotypes found in the medieval Song of Roland are still prevalent today. To understand Islamophobia in other parts of the world—South Asia, Africa—I would have had to immerse myself in the history and cultures of those parts of the world, and frankly I am just not familiar enough with those regions to undert…

Is Sam Harris Really a White Supremacist?

By Andrew Aghapour and Michael Schulson

…rather his fundamental understanding of social groups. From his privileged Western viewpoint, Harris reduces social collectives to essential types. Where white supremacists subscribe to a typology of race, however, Harris assigns people to groups based on their creeds. It is telling that Harris is such a strong proponent of Samuel Huntington’s widely discredited “Clash of Civilizations” thesis, which posits a civilizational war between Islam and t…