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The Cult of Kurzweil: Will Robots Save Our Souls?

By Robert M. Geraci

…ted). Public policy leaders and corporate officers have attended executive classes and funding has come from major tech companies such as Google and Nokia. Press surrounding the university has been positive, including even an encouraging review from the Chronicle of Higher Education, which suggests that traditional universities have much to learn from SU’s curriculum. What we see is the emergence of a genuine religious tradition. Is it new? Not ex…

Shari’ah (Panic) Threatens the Constitution

By Sarah Posner

…ers legitimates the whole creeping, toxic American system of providing one class of legal protections for some but not others: special laws for children of immigrants, special laws for people who might look like immigrants, different jails for those who seem too dangerous, special laws for people worthy of wiretapping, and special laws for corporations. After today it will be easier than ever to use words and slogans to invent classes of people wh…

“Traditional values.” Tom DeLay. Jesus loves low, low prices! Just another day in Texas.

By Sarah Posner

…Deuteronomy 25:13-15 dictates that weights should be perfect and just, not diverse. Of all the clergy who signed onto the letter that lambastes Wal-Mart for its immorality and alleged failure to follow the Golden Rule, it appears not one of them caught the error. And maybe that’s the root of this problem: the clergy involved with this campaign are political activists, unfamiliar with the virtues of market economics and blindly idealistic about the…

Women and Children First: Syria’s Day of Dignity

By Mohja Kahf

…t is largely unaffiliated with political parties, and cuts across economic class, with a strong showing in the countryside. While the regime claims a progressive agenda on gender, neither women nor men are free in an authoritarian state. Women and children are at the forefront of the movement for freedom in Syria, a movement as inclusive as Syria is diverse. In the Lead-up to Day of Dignity: Children Imprisoned Two dozen schoolchildren tagged th…

The Jersey Shores of Tripoli: MTV and Arab Revolution

By Haroon Moghul

…white Americans, to me and to themselves. Their subcultures were formed by class, music, sports, and other local criteria, and rarely by either faith or ethnicity. Here’s a secret, white people: For us brown people, you were long part of a magical, all-powerful civilization, and we had no idea how in the hell you did it (these days, it seems, you’re desperately wondering the same thing). Everywhere whites went, they prospered, dominated, succeeded…

Day of (Anti-Bullying) Silence Shows “Pro-Family” Activists to be Anti-Gay Bullies

By Julie Ingersoll

…to protect them from being “sexually indoctrinated” in schools where their classmates will remain silent. Moreover, SaveCalifornia’s response seems decidedly like bullying. Since the school funding is based on attendance, they advocated keeping students out of the classroom for the explicit purpose costing the school money to “prevent the Day of Silence” and/or “punish” school administrators that “allow” students to remain silent. Calling the even…

The Princess Bride: Royal Weddings for Everyone

By Katy E. Shrout

…a.k.a. “Here comes the bride”)—not only for English royals, but for middle-class folks, too. After Victoria’s wedding, etiquette books began to refer to the “white wedding” as a kind of ritual marked by formality, the symbolic color white, a certain measure of expense, and an emphasis given to the bride herself. In 1841, some observers wondered why egalitarian Americans, who ought to know better than to admire the foolish trappings of monarchy, we…

In a Field of Anti-Science Candidates, Santorum Sets Himself Apart

By Lauri Lebo

…rwinian theory. The Dover Area School District has taken a step in the right direction by engaging in the debate and attempting to teach the controversy of evolution. One day after Judge John E. Jones III struck down the teaching of intelligent design in public school science class as unconstitutional, Santorum—on the verge of losing his Senate seat to current Senator Bob Casey—quit the TMLC board. He also denounced the teaching of ID. Santorum s…

By the Numbers: New Poll Says Capitalism and Christianity Are Incompatible

By The Editors

…of all religious groups except white evangelical Protestants, who are evenly split) agree that it’s fair for wealthier Americans to pay more taxes than the middle class or those less well off, why is neither party willing to shift the tax burden to the wealthy? …

Scopes Redux DOA Pending Expert Input

By Lauri Lebo

…g.” Scientists say the wording is a ploy to sneak creationism into science class. Once again, the bill’s language is based on sample legislation proposed by the Seattle-based Discovery Institute. The bill is not yet officially dead, however. According to the Sentinel, “the Senate Education Committee wound up adjourning Wednesday night with some other bills left hanging, raising the possibility of another meeting where Watson could revive the measu…