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Talmud on Trial: Interfaith Dialogue in the 13th Century

By Michael Schulson

…ording to Gregory, potentially offensive to all of Christendom. A group of French rabbis appeared in the book’s defense. The prosecutor, Nicholas Donin, who’d converted from Judaism to Christianity, had traveled to Rome in order to convince the Pope of the Talmud’s danger, with motives that remain unclear. Christian university scholars made up the jury, and many Parisian luminaries attended the proceedings—the king’s mother and an archbishop among…

NOM’s Brian Brown Went to Russia to Push Anti-Gay Laws

By Peter Montgomery

…Russia earlier this year. He went as part of a delegation led by far-right French leaders to cheer on conservative legislators considering a ban on adoption of Russian children by people who live in countries that support LGBT equality. According to Russian news reports, the French activists and Brown attended two events in Moscow. One was a joint meeting on changes in international adoption laws with the Duma’s committee on foreign affairs and i…

Do We Owe Human Rights to the Christian Right?

By Austin Dacey

…conventional narrative that traces the lineage of human rights through the French and American Revolutions to seventeenth-century natural rights theory—and further to Roman law and Greek, Judeo-Christian, and Stoic ethical universalism. This popular history underscores continuities between the work of today’s human rights defenders and previous citizens’ struggles for the rights of women, workers, immigrants, and formerly enslaved and colonized pe…

White Supremacy, Mental Illness, or Society: What’s to Blame for Religious Violence?

By Michael Schulson

…nerations of Muslim immigrants from its former colonies. They’re not about French military action….They’re not part of some general wave of nihilistic violence in the economically depressed, socially atomized, morally hollow West…They are only the latest blows delivered by an ideology that has sought to achieve power through terror for decades. For a while now, I’ve been wondering: how did George Packer know? As a staff writer for The New Yorker h…

A Long History of Blaming the Jews

By Gordon Haber

…doesn’t make the term any less problematic: I am reminded of the cretinous French pedant who told me that he couldn’t possibly be an antisemite because he had nothing against Arabs. Aside from these issues, “antisemitism” doesn’t quite describe the Western obsession with Jews and Judaism. Every culture, to some extent, defines itself by what it is not. But Western culture has frequently defined itself by projecting distasteful qualities, like gre…

Forget Romance, It’s Time for Some Radical Love

By Ed Simon

…l love? Consider the ancient example of Peter Abelard, the twelfth-century French theologian whose penetrating insights into the problem of universals and nominalism altered medieval philosophy, and his lover, the equally brilliant Héloïse d’Argenteuil. Of course if there is one thing that people remember about the affair it is its tragic conclusion, which has been mourned, romanticized, and parodied over the past eight centuries. The romance was…

The Case Against Rebuilding Notre Dame

By Jay Rubenstein

…ymbol and as a place that welcomed (according to the most frequently cited number) 13 million visitors a year, Notre Dame is part of shared heritage, a link to the medieval past lying improbably at the heart of the world’s first great modern city. Right away, donors opened their checkbooks. In barely a day, nearly a billion dollars had been pledged. But the relief effort raised obvious questions. In a nation roiled by violent protests against econ…

Misdiagnosing Nationalism as ‘Christian’ Exacerbates the Challenges of Islamophobia: A Response to Murali Balaji

By John W. Morehead

…Wildman at Foreign Policy, Tarrant draws upon the work of Renaud Camus, a French anti-immigration writer. They note that while Tarrant was in France at a mall watching immigrant “invaders,” the idea came to him to use violence against nonwhites. Polakow-Suransky and Wildman quote from Tarrant’s manifesto illustrating the emotional impact this had on the soon-to-be mass murderer: “I found my emotions swinging between fuming rage and suffocating de…

How a Bill O’Reilly Bestseller Helps Explain the Anti-Semitism Behind the Poway Shooting

By Tony Keddie

…sus, Susannah Heschel has identified Renan’s racial turning point: for the French nationalist, Jesus’s protest against the money-changers at the Temple somehow proved that “Jesus was no longer a Jew.” As Halvor Moxnes has shown in Jesus and the Rise of Nationalism, Renan consistently romanticizes the Galilean north as a verdant paradise while reproaching the area around Jerusalem as barren and stony. O’Reilly and Dugard clearly echo Renan when pro…

America, the Mythical: “Mother of Exiles” or Denier of Safe Haven?

By Ed Simon

…ricans,” a designation which other colonial powers such as the Spanish and French, and indeed English settlers in the South, reserved exclusively for the Indians. For a long time there was an ambivalence about the Puritans. Indeed their own intellectual descendants—the New England transcendentalists and the radicals of the American Renaissance—viewed their inheritance with a wary eye. Nathaniel Hawthorne, who was in the line of the dreaded Judge H…