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

By Barbra Barnett

…rewes. One float featured an oversized Energizer Bunny (“He Keeps Coming”) with a giant erection. Other floats focused on civic grievances—one float mocking Governor Jindal’s health care policy. Another float predicted the death of local journalism with an altar of skulls and the riddle: “What’s Black and White and Dead All Over?” The smaller and lesser-known “Krewe Delusion” followed with its own share of satire and adult themes. And then there w…

Sarah Palin and the Politics of Victimization

By Randall Balmer

…nt. The second book in the Sarah Palin œuvre, however, America by Heart: Reflections on Family, Faith, and Flag, crosses the line from cute puppy bouncing on his back legs to mangy cur relentlessly humping a visitor’s leg. By all accounts—and especially Palin’s own account—the former governor of Alaska is a busy person these days, appearing regularly on Fox News, starring in reality television, and hop-scotching the lower 48 by private jet to make…

The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right

By Frederick Clarkson

…o addressing the real problem. You and the scholars you cite seem to agree with the observation, widely attributed to novelist Sinclair Lewis, that “When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.” How do you see that claim playing out today? Well, I do see a potential for fascism, but I don’t see it manifesting itself in the predictable way; as a takeover by an identifiably proto-fascist movement like the Patrio…

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

By Andrew Aghapour

…religious group. That means we’re going to have more and more children growing up with the default presumption that they’re Muslims. I think, however, that it’s not going to be as standard, obvious, or routine for them to stay Muslims when they grow up. Islam has a long, unfortunate tradition of treating apostates very severely, and I think that we’re going to see more of that. And I think that it’s going to backfire. How former Muslims or childr…

Springtime for Ross Douthat?

By Daniel Schultz

…secular and anti-clerical, culminating in the Obama White House’s battles with Francis’ own church,” without so much as a whiff of evidence, as though a bloodthirsty Bernie Sanders were about to pivot from his appearance at Liberty University to send the entire US College of Bishops to the guillotine. Nor is it his failure to consider such alternative perspectives as “before Francis was even elected Pope the American bishops tried to submarine he…

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

By Ed Simon

…ous years the coffee behemoth had offered up small, grande, and venti cups with (obviously secular) images of snowflakes and reindeer, 2015’s version has replaced this festive decoration with a minimalist, crimson blood-red design. Supposedly this has enraged a portion of the Christian right, who view this decision as a rejection of Christian values. This portion of conservative Christians – exactly how many remains vague in media coverage – appar…

On Eve of Sudan Split Clashes Continue

By Ashley Makar

…iam does not believe that the conflict between Northern and Southern Sudan will end with separation; independence, he says, will just be “ice on the fire.” The current conflicts in Abyei and Kordofan arise over the same fault lines as the civil war: race, religion, and resources. The Arab Muslim government in Khartoum has a long history of violently suppressing liberation movements in Central, Western, and Southern Sudan, where the populations are…

Dispatches from the Borderlands: Missing Voices

By Daniel Ramirez

…enching experience for, among others, 3 million young U.S. citizens. As we flirt with legalized xenophobia and family disintegration, perhaps the silent shepherds will take up the ancient cloak of Mordecai and Esther and speak a prophetic word of remonstrance. To begin with, the ministers can remind us of the obvious: there has been much hypocrisy in the immigration debate. All have sinned. The cheap salads and meats consumed at immigration policy…

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

By Shaul Magid

…rfect. Each gets what they want and what they need. The settlers get the Jewish bodies with a “natural growth” rate that would make any population transfer difficult to justify. The Haredim get their government sponsored neo-ghettos to raise their families and practice their religion. The one unknown factor necessary to make this work in the long term is ideology. The settlers are banking on the idea that the fact of living in the territories (Jud…

Four Reasons Why Egypt’s Revolution Is Islamic

By Zaid Hassan

…the poster-child of the Facebook Generation, almost certainly does have a wide following in the slums of Cairo. The Muslim Brotherhood is therefore the strongest autonomous force in Egypt today. While the Brotherhood started out as a social movement, they overcame their reluctance to participate in formal opposition politics in 2005. They joined the street demonstrations of the Kifaya movement, engaged in debate on political reform and successf…