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Evangelicals Clutching Pearls Over Student Debt Relief: Lord Have Mercy!

By Peter Laarman

…sumer goods for high wages and a measure of economic security. It is no coincidence that all of this took shape in the wake of the civil rights movement, the fracturing of the New Deal coalition and the end (for those who had enjoyed it) of the Fordist economic order of male breadwinners and traditional families. Opposition to broad redistribution on the basis of racial chauvinism dovetailed in a mutually reinforcing fashion with opposition to red…

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

By Shaul Magid

…Haredim could decide to pack up and leave if the government gave them financial incentive to do so. That is, unless the Haredi “facts on the ground” grow roots, the whole settler project could collapse. In a July 27 article in the New York Times, “In West Bank Settlements: Sign of Hope for a Deal” Ethan Bronner and Isabel Kershner point out the soft nature of Haredi sympathy for their ostensible partners. The article shows that while the Haredim…

Four Reasons Why Egypt’s Revolution Is Islamic

By Zaid Hassan

…e most weak and vulnerable, were treated with absolute respect. The experience of building such a society and living in it would give them intimations of the divine, because they would be living in accordance with God’s will. A Muslim had to redeem history, and that meant that state affairs were not a distraction from spirituality but the stuff of religion itself. The political well being of the Muslim community was a matter of supreme importance….

A Shining City: The Occupy Movement and the American Soul

By Elizabeth Drescher

…esperation, and looks the other way. Or, at least so it has usually been since the Reagan ascendency of the 1980s, with middle-class Americans curiously reorienting their dreams away from what might reasonably be attainable for pretty much everyone and toward a level of affluence available to ordinary people only through a freakish, high-stakes contortion of the economy. Now that the curtain’s been pulled back on the false wizardry of a deregulate…

Why Conservatives Really Oppose Federal Aid for the ‘Undeserving’

By Daniel Schultz

…t the rich. It doesn’t take much to work that out. But where does the instinct for class warfare come from? I think Stoehr is right to frame his argument in religious terms: heavenly import, sacrilege, faith and ideology, which is faith’s steely cousin. A number of years ago, I was chatting with the theologian Walter Brueggemann’s then-wife Mary on a Sunday morning. She told me she’d been bemoaning some bit of racial egregiousness or another to he…

The Social Science Animal: Brooks Argues for Emotion over Reason

By Beatrice Marovich

…stled from the comfort of his own categories. It doesn’t take much to convince me of the importance of emotions, of reason’s deep dependence on the passions, desires, and feelings in our animal bodies. But this is something I’ve learned from my reading in (among other things) a host of contemporary feminist theories, so I didn’t need Brooks to feed me this. And, although I’ve suggested that Brooks is promoting a kind of “reformed” humanism, he als…

Israel’s Immigration Debate: “Where is the Jewish Spirit?”

By Mati Wagner

…ter Eli Yishai, of Shas, an Israeli haredi political party with a constituency of traditional-minded Jewish immigrants or children of immigrants from Muslim countries, all 1,200 should be deported; including those born in Israel to workers who came legally. They endanger Jewish continuity. A few years from now, these cute little boys and girls will be marrying our sons and daughters. And if we let them stay, more will be encouraged to come, furthe…

Pop-Eye: Meat The Wrestler

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…otations of meat, and why so many critics left the obvious religious references aside, including reviewers and publications associated with religious groups. The story goes that The Ram was big in professional wrestling in the 80s, but being an old piece of meat, it is hard to maintain such a vocation for long. The big match from back in the day—immortalized/digitized in a clunky Nintendo game that Randy plays with a trailer-park neighbor kid—pits…

RDBook: Apocalypse Without God

By Nathan Schneider

…networked, the technology created the possibility and the need for new financial instruments, which are incredibly complicated. All these instruments are being created as a way of distributing and managing risk, but their very proliferation creates more volatility and greater risk. What was developed in order to minimize risk has exacerbated it. When you were writing, what hopes did you have for the book? What hopes can you have for a book? How ha…

Lindsey Graham’s Lying “Eye-ranians”

By Haroon Moghul

…el has a right to all of the Middle East? When they say they’re the resistance axis, do they mean they’re the compliance cartel? Or does Mr. Graham mean they’re always lying about everything, to the point of contradiction? Ladies and Gentlemen, we need to know. We need to know when we’re being lied to. Is everything Iran does simply ‘taqiyya,’ that nefarious doctrine by which Muslims use any kind of jibber jabber to advance their real goals? And,…