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Drone Warfare, Divine Omniscience, and the Unspeakable Power of the Photographic Image

By Peter Laarman

…ace, joy, frankness, and faithfulness to what is holy. No other weapon can compare to it. It melts ice, spreads lift, brings warmth. It creates and alters, drives out doubt and despondency, and stands guard. It marches victoriously through locked gates, so that he who sits in prison finds consolation. Sentilles lets this remarkable statement speak for itself. It speaks volumes. My only regret about this terrific and troubling book is that Ruane’s…

Why We Stay: What the History of Mormonism Reveals About the Origins of “Race”

By Max Mueller

…ch late nineteenth-century anthropologists from the U.S. Army Medical Museum dug up from the chief’s elaborate burial site in order to compare its cranial volume with other races….

Why is Huntsman’s Mormonism “Tough to Define”?

By Joanna Brooks

…double-talk and “flip-flop” on healthcare. (Dana Milbank went so far as to compare Mitt to conjoined twins recently born in China. Ouch.) In dodging the question of Mormon identity, was Huntsman acting the part of the slippery and crowd-pleasing politician? Or was he trying to negotiate the often difficult path of the other-than-orthodox Mormon? Either way, I claim him as a member of the tribe. Editors’note: Joanna will be speaking about Mormon id…

Bannon’s “Alt-Facts” Satan

By Spencer Dew

…vellian language of career politicians like the one he campaigned against. Compare, for instance, Trump, on the Access Hollywood tape, bragging of “grabbing” the sexual organs of women, using crude but clear language, with that equally infamous statement from President Clinton, “I did not have sex with that woman,” turning to nuance to obfuscate, deploying seemingly precise language to permit an alternate precision. Clinton’s statement, at least,…

Rick Perry and the New Apostolic Reformation

By Sarah Posner

…able ethics and war mongering) was an aberration for a GOP presidential aspirant. Perry, in his comments to the Dallas Morning News this week, suggested that some of the co-sponsors and participants in his prayer rally are like endorsers of a political campaign; he can’t help it if they compare gay people to Nazis, for example. But obviously this is more than an endorsement; it’s a collaboration. And it’s a collaboration that is gaining not just m…

Robert George’s Bogus Comparison of Herman Cain to Martha Coakley

By Sarah Posner

…nds, to perform abortions, dispense birth control, or other procedures. He compares Cain’s statement to what he claims (inaccurately) was the statement of Democrat Martha Coakley when she was running her unsuccessful campaign to fill the Senate seat of the late Ted Kennedy: It puts Cain in a camp with Martha Coakley, the hapless Massachusetts Democrat who, when running against Scott Brown for the United States Senate, infamously said that devout C…

First Draft Of History Today Could Be Fox News Promo Tomorrow

By Lauri Lebo

…nd like watching an hour of Fox News. Kids might be instructed to learn to compare and contrast the landmark legislation to the Black Plague, the 9/11 attacks, the attack on Pearl Harbor, Bloody Sunday, or even the Jonestown massacre, as commentator Pat Caddell told Sean Hannity. (Real classy.) Rather than have students learn anything about the actual details of the plan and whether it was successful at increasing health care coverage to millions…

Beck, Hagee, and Lieberman Band Together to Fuel Armageddon Panic

By Sarah Posner

…f Sen. Joe Lieberman endorsement of Beck’s Jerusalem event. Lieberman once compared Hagee to Moses, “a man of God” who has become a “leader of a mighty multitude.” The Beck-Hagee alliance dates back years, too, with Beck hosting the televangelist on his CNN program in 2007 to answer “honest questions” about whether “the apocalypse is almost upon us.” The Hagee-Beck-Lieberman series of stunts is aimed at two audiences: Israel hawks who want to dera…

Capricology: Tattoos, Blood, Cyber-Dating

By Anthea Butler

…Clarice’s belief, and Zoe and Tamara’s virtual embodiment, suggests yes. (Compare Clarice’s appreciation for Zoe’s creation of a living avatar with Daniel’s desire to get his daughter back; Clarice sees apotheosis—a glorious future for humanity, while Daniel makes a selfish grab for his past.) Yet in Clarice’s view, the soul is static. (Another theological digression: does the soul evolve, or is its essence set?) But avatar Zoe is not quite the s…

The Arab, the Feds and the Flood: Dave Eggers’ Zeitoun Rescues America

By Haroon Moghul

…fab IKEA furniture, assembled everywhere and found anywhere. (Below I will compare Islam to cotton candy.) Eggers never stumbles when he introduces; between Zeitoun’s thoughts and fears, verses of Qur’an, episodes from his family history, instances from his childhood. We care about and root on the dry sidelines for the decent man overwhelmed by the skewed civilization around him, more interested in building prisons for its citizens than, say, find…