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Before Breitbart: How Right Wing Media Transformed American Politics

By Eric C. Miller

…y of Pennsylvania Press August 2016 Hanighen and Morley brought on a young Chicagoan named Henry Regnery to handle their promotional work. Regnery soon got the publishing bug, and left Human Events to start his own company, Regnery Publishing. Soon he was putting out some of the most important conservative books of the era, including William F. Buckley’s God and Man at Yale (1951) and Russell Kirk’s The Conservative Mind (1953). It was in this mom…

Op-Ed: Bashing Back: Queer Thugs?

By Ariana Childs Graham

…!—a small group of “Radical Transfolk, Queers and Allies” with chapters in Chicago, DC, Denver, Lansing, Memphis, Milwaukee, New York, Philadelphia, and Olympia. Anyone who accepts the Bash Back! “points of unity,” which include agreeing to “fight for liberation,” can start their own chapter and conduct any actions they deem necessary. Bash Back! Chicago describes itself as: Dedicated to eradicating heteronormativity, subverting binary gender norm…

Euthanasia Billboards, Post-Rapture Pet Care, Can You Tell a Burqa from a Hijab?

By Michael J. Altman

…t. Do Rastafarians and Quakers have something in common? A Hindu temple in Chicago inaugurated the Swami Vivekananda Spiritual Center this past weekend. The space will be used for yoga and meditation. It is dedicated to the Hindu leader who broke onto the American scene at the 1893 World’s Parliament of Religion, also held in Chicago. The World’s Parliament may return to the United States, as Dallas has made the list of possible host cities alongs…

Is Wheaton’s Decision to End Student Insurance a Religious Liberty Ruse?

By Patricia Miller

…student development said at a student information session reported in the Chicago Tribune. “What really breaks my heart is that there are real people that are affected by our decision. But if we don’t win this case, the implications down the road in terms of what the government will tell us what we can and cannot do will be potentially more significant.” This plays into the idea advanced by the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, which is represen…

Kosher Quinoa or Human Rights: Guess Which Dominated Passover Stories

By Shalom Goldman

…t’s food is certified kosher: These days Evanger’s Dog & Cat Food Co. near Chicago sells dog and cat food that, in a manner of speaking, is kosher. They are deemed usable during the Passover holiday, though not kosher for human consumption, and have the endorsement of the venerable Chicago Rabbinical Council. Evanger’s website touts its products by showing a photo of a dog wearing a yarmulke. Not to be undone on the ‘animals eating kosher’ front,…

Want to Love Your Neighbor? Pay Fair Wages

By Kim Bobo

…nd the Center for Urban Economic Development at the University of Illinois-Chicago) is based on rigorous surveys of over 4,000 workers in low-wage industries in Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York. The results are astounding, and confirm what Interfaith Worker Justice’s worker centers around the country have been saying for the last few years. Among the workers surveyed: • Fully 26 percent of workers were paid less than the legally-required minimum…

Post-Paris Reflections: We May Have to Learn to Hope

By Donna Schaper

…ar old and the movie scared us so much we had a panic attack with him in a Chicago parking garage.) COP21 will deal a blow to climate science fiction and set the film artists to work on some more positive versions of the end game. We may even have to learn to be positive, instead of knee-jerk negative. We may even have a reason to hope. Of course we are not done. The 55 countries now accounting for at least 55% of global emissions must now ratify…

Obama Foes Misrepresent Islam with “Apostate” Tactic

By Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na`im

…er in Islamic Studies, Lancaster University, UK +Manan Ahmed University of Chicago +Rohit Chopra Assistant Professor of Media Studies, Babson College, Massachusetts +Elizabeth Castelli Professor and Chair, Religion Department, Barnard College at Columbia University, New York City +Omid Safi Professor of Islamic Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill +Samina Ali Novelist, San Francisco +Nishant Shahani Assistant Professor, Women’s Stu…

The Sacred and the Dead: It’s (Not) Just a Box of Rain

By Cathleen Falsani

…ugh my freshman year of college in 1989, I went to my first Dead show near Chicago. I didn’t have a ticket (and didn’t care so much about the music, really) but wanted to see what all the fuss was about from a safe distance in the parking lot where the aromas and sights and sounds and colors and patterns and vibe of Deadhead central overwhelmed my senses. I bought a silver bangle for $10 and almost 26 years later, it’s still there on my right wris…

Global LGBT Recap: Nigeria Jails Gays, Russian Orthodox Spox Calls for Criminalization Referendum

By Peter Montgomery

…sion talking about the LGBT people being less than human. For example, the number two person in the state broadcasting company – actually now he’s the number one person – hosted a show devoted to the question of whether it was enough to protect our children to ban homosexual propaganda or whether more needed to be done. He argued that more needed to be done. He said and we need to outlaw blood and sperm donations by them. And if they die in car ac…