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“Hey You! Anti-Semite!”: A Jewish Krewe does Mardi Gras

By Barbra Barnett

…emitic myths and imagery out of the hands of those who would use them to oppress, bleeds them of their power, and reclaims them as objects of jest. This approach is analogous to that of the traditionally African-American Krewe of Zulu. Scholars of American Jewish humor often draw parallels with traditions of African-American humor, and the comparison between Krewe du Jieux and the Krewe of Zulu is an easy one. Zulu has a longer and deeper history…

Sarah Palin and the Politics of Victimization

By Randall Balmer

…onversant with these sources, and, if so, more power to her. But we should probably remind ourselves that this is the same person who, during the 2008 presidential campaign, couldn’t name a single newspaper she read with any regularity. “Politically-Motivated Attacks” Having failed to win election to the vice presidency in 2008 and having resigned as governor midway through her first term, Palin currently holds no political office. But, if America…

The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right

By Frederick Clarkson

…those who misuse the term for “cheap political theater,” writing that “inappropriate comparisons tend to obscure the reality of what’s taking place.” So what is the reality? Neiwert recently spoke with Religion Dispatches about violent rhetoric, imprecatory prayer, and eliminationism. Religion Dispatches: You begin the book talking primarily about the excesses of media personalities like Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage, and Ann Coulter. What do you…

Churches Can No Longer Hide the Truth: Daniel Dennett on the New Transparency

By Andrew Aghapour

…de eyesight possible, and this changed everything: now predators could see prey, and prey could see predators, and this set off an arms race of interactions. Well, we think something similar is happening in human culture. Institutions—not just religions but also universities, armies, corporations—are now faced with how to change their fundamental structure and methods to deal with the fact that everybody’s living in a glass house now. Protecting y…

Springtime for Ross Douthat?

By Daniel Schultz

…ine—and goes downhill from there. And the headline (a sly reference to The Producers‘ “Springtime for Hitler”) isn’t even the worst thing in the article. To be fair, journalists don’t write their own headlines [Dan didn’t write this one, for example. –the eds]. Also, I should point out that Douthat’s first three paragraphs go off without him tripping over his own shoelaces. The fourth paragraph is where he begins to fumble. It’s not just that the…

Despising the Holidays: When Christians Led the ‘War on Christmas’

By Ed Simon

…became the equivalent of a blockbuster. In the chaos of the era print was cheap and plentiful, and the collapse of the licensing laws insured a degree of free speech hitherto unknown in the British Isles. The World Turned Upside Down would prove so enduring that it has been an English folk ballad for more than 350 years. The song’s opening verse, “Holy-dayes are despis’d, new fashions are devis’d. /Old Christmas is kicked out of Town” remains per…

On Eve of Sudan Split Clashes Continue

By Ashley Makar

…is a story of expectation and disappointment, with the biblical rhythm of prophesied redemption and present-day lamentation. When William talks about crossing the Egyptian desert, he talks about the Holy Spirit. He remembers Pentecost, when, in the Christian Scripture, the first apostles received the guidance of the Holy Spirit in Jerusalem. William, however, didn’t make it to Jerusalem or to a university. After he crossed from Egypt into Israel,…

Dispatches from the Borderlands: Missing Voices

By Daniel Ramirez

…lers, agribusiness, hotel chains, restauranteurs, and consumers) that feed cheaply off their precarious status at the bottom of our economic food chain? How to balance national security concerns with pragmatic ones over economic productivity? The debate has drawn the usual cast of advocates: policy wonks, border vigilantes, and religious leaders. Some religious leaders, that is: Others have been notable in their silence. In the case of Arellano, b…

Of Zionism and Anti-Zionism: The Ultra Orthodox and the Settler Movement in Israel

By Shaul Magid

…ciple that the Land of Israel (its exact contours defined by rabbinic interpretation of the biblical boundaries) is promised to the Jews and that relinquishing land to gentiles, even under the auspices of a peace agreement, is unacceptable. It is also founded on an activist messianism that includes Jewish sovereignty over the entirely of the Land of Israel. While there are considerable gradations in the Settler Movement (some of it is secular and…

Four Reasons Why Egypt’s Revolution Is Islamic

By Zaid Hassan

…civil society organizations, including new universities and think tanks, sprouting up across the Gulf will prove their worth and all those young Gulf-citizens will truly earn their PhDs. 4. Muslims are tired of how politics has been defined by and in the West. Perhaps the time has come to redefine what politics means? Realpolitik, the Kissingerian-Nixonian view of international relations, has dominated US foreign policy for decades. It ensure…