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Lincoln, Clinton, and Trump: From Strategy to Spin to Straight-Up Bullshit

By Martin Jay

…The second difference between Clinton’s and Trump’s approach to mendacity deals with the very nature of lying itself. The fundamental structure of the speech act we call lying involves four distinct features: (1) the speaker knows or thinks he knows the truth. (2) He or she utters a deliberate falsehood, asserting the opposite of what he or she knows to be the case. (3) This false utterance is performatively designed to persuade the listener that…

Trump and Hindu Nationalism: A Match Made in Bollywood

By Andrea R. Jain

…nfranchise Indian Muslims. Trump insisted, “We must fix our terrible trade deals and protect America’s intellectual property, something you know a lot about.” While Modi and his fellow Hindutva neoliberals want the state out of the way of private enterprise, they want the state to use public resources to actively promote a form of Hindu yoga. United by anxiety about immigration—and especially Muslims—as well as perceived threats to capitalist and…

“I Worship Jesus, Not Mother Earth”: American Christian Exceptionalism and the Paris Withdrawal

By Jacob J. Erickson

…we speak of the beauty and worth of the earth beyond the art of for-profit deals? We must slow down, notice each sparrow that falls, each oil spill, each emission of CO2, each species lost for all time, each hungry and thirsty person in the food deserts of negligence and racism, each island nation drowning under the selfish inaction of self-made men. We must slow down, notice each song sung, each coalition formed, each appreciation of tragic beaut…

Convicted Wall Street Con Artist Finds New Target: Gays

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…dishonest present-day work with the ex-gay industry. Whether it was shady deals on Wall Street or shading the truth on gay issues, Goldberg is someone who lacks credibility and can’t be trusted,” Besen said in a press release. It’s more bad news for the “ex-gay” industry that has, for years, sought to make money, and headlines, selling a “cure” for homosexuality. Denounced by the American Psychological Association, the movement relies on question…

A Test of the Prophetic Imagination: Seeing a “Good Liberal” in All His Corrupt Glory

By Peter Laarman

…d Glaser says in Sasseen’s piece—that legislators like Frank who cut sweet deals for well-heeled interests are merely “bowing to reality.” Yes, but here is where some prophetic imagination is needed, because it is an unholy reality that these same insiders and lobbyists have created. What the lobbyists choose to call “political reality” translates into the reality of a Congress that is utterly beholden to them. So it really doesn’t matter if the…

What if Courts Considered Sincerity of “Religious Freedom” Litigants?

By Kara Loewentheil

…it should trouble us—at least those of us with an interest in how the law deals with these questions—regardless of whether or not the Hitching Post gets its exemption or not. And that’s because the doctrine as it currently exists doesn’t have a good way of taking account of these kinds of facts. There was a similar pattern in Hobby Lobby, where it became apparent that (1) Hobby Lobby had covered contraception in its health plan until the ACA was…

CNN Editor Leaves Over Tweet on Hezbollah ‘Giant’

By Hussein Rashid

…ly a democratically elected party in Lebanon, with which the US government deals with on a regular basis. Unfortunately, CNN fell into pattern and abandoned one of their reporters instead of standing up for her. Initially, CNN even refused toexplain what Nasr had done wrong, quoting a super-secret social media policy that even they are not fully aware of. Eventually, the decision was made that their reporters in America are not as free as American…

Shopping for Your Kids, Bioethically Speaking

By Arri Eisen

…re or less, the instructions in the first paragraph: go to a Web site that deals in eggs and sperm, contact the brokers therein, pay for the ‘best’ eggs and sperm you can afford from the best sources (‘best’ as determined by things like the jobs and grades of those whose sperm and eggs you are ‘using’), find a fertility clinic, pay the clinic to mix the eggs and sperm and put the resulting fertilized eggs into a surrogate mom (found, for example,…

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Can Government Solve The Evil Of Mass Shootings? A Response to Mollie Hemingway

By Daniel Schultz

…w the nation’s fourth-worst gun massacre (the shootings in Las Vegas being number one), was “only the 14th mass murder at an American house of worship since 1963.” Only! We have to have rankings of such things now, complete with charts detailing deadly incidents at faith properties… and by denomination? The interminable debate about prayers-vs.-action was back, too. As soon as politicians started tweeting their standard lines about “thoughts and p…

Worse Than the Robber Barons

By Peter Laarman

…hese new-class elites take advantage of special tax breaks and other sweet deals even as they continue to make the rules for everyone else and even as they decide what interest rates we drones will have to pay and what level of taxation we will have to bear. Do not expect Main Street’s visceral rage over such presumptions of privilege—and over the special moral exemptions the excessively overprivileged carve out for themselves—to subside anytime…