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

By Barbra Barnett

…I’m Jewish, too!” The main reason that I joined was for the opportunity to participate in New Orleans culture and tradition as an insider, a goal that can sometimes take generations to achieve in this close-knit town—a goal shared by most of the members that I spoke with on Saturday, many of whom are young newcomers to the city. Krewe du Jieux offers a chance to join in on the fun, blending Jewish and New Orleanian cultural traditions: a klezmer-i…

A Truly Fearless Human Being: Rev. Howard Moody, 1921-2012

By Tom Davis

…aws. I think he reveled in the avant garde because he himself was actually part of it: completely breaking apart what it had meant to be a mainline congregation and creating something new and amazingly vibrant on Washington Square South. But what may ultimately be most endearing was his gift for exploding the cheap piety we’re still imprisoned by as we head toward the 2012 elections. Nowhere was this on display more prominently than in his distinc…

How To Control Your Ungodly Urges… On a Budget!

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…ndly tips for misogynists trying to control their urges: 1. Sell plasma! Patricia Heaton says this is a good way to make some spare cash, and she was on a hit TV series. So. 2. Distract yourself! Think of some mysteries to ponder… like the fact that you or someone you know might have Debra Barone’s plasma coursing through their veins. 3. This might be controversial, but if you face truly irresistible urges to spout some hateful epithet, you coul…

A Shining City: The Occupy Movement and the American Soul

By Elizabeth Drescher

…der dresses and ridiculously high-heeled shoes. They sipped from splits of cheap sparkling wine while their tuxedoed companions swilled the local brew, Budweiser—that, too, a faded American icon, sold off in 2008 to the Belgium-based multinational, InBev. No, of course, these were not the protesters who have begun to appear in more and more American cities, but keepers of the once-stable base of a certain version of the fabled American Dream: wedd…

SoulCycle Looks to Sell its Soul

By Michael Schulson

…ized family—albeit one with a healthy profit margin. Accordingly, it’s not cheap. A package of 50 classes in the Hamptons (which includes early class signups) runs for $4,000. New York magazine interviewed one New York City rider who, by the magazine’s estimate, was spending more than $21,000 on SoulCycle each year. A single class, sans early sign-up perks, costs nearly as much as a month-long membership at my local YMCA. Meanwhile, back on SoulCy…

Richard Dawkins’ Atheist Academy of Unguided Truth

By Paul Wallace

…idea horrifies him. A child should skip down an idiosyncratic intellectual path. “I am almost pathologically afraid of indoctrinating children,” he says. “It would be a ‘Think for Yourself Academy.’” Dawkins is expanding on a point made in his 2006 bestseller, The God Delusion: There is no such thing as a Christian child, only a child of Christian parents. The same, Dawkins says, goes for all religious and political identities: There is no such th…

Fear of a Catholic Ghetto

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…re provider’s principles.) With all due respect, putting the onus on the patient, as if patients enjoy such a range of choice in their healthcare providers, seems at least as unrealistic a prospect as convincing nearly all sexually-active adults in the U.S. that they shouldn’t use contraception. No, this problem will be something for Catholic institutions themselves to sort out. Catholic hospitals may have to negotiate a new compromise between…

On Eve of Sudan Split Clashes Continue

By Ashley Makar

…he Nile, the green the land, the red the blood of Christ. Under a headless palm tree on the parched land of the kibbutz courtyard, William told me how he used to hide in the mango trees near Abyei, their leaves so thick you couldn’t see the sun. Now, the borderland is barren, apart from the few trees that don’t need water and, of course, the oil underground. A Film and a Smoothie Sudanese who arrived as refugees will have to leave Israel as a resu…

Prophets of the Environmental Apocalypse

By Peter Laarman

…berries economy, you have already lost. Try to show how the sustainability path is a joyful path, not a grim monastic path. It may be true, as many have said, that the next revolution—the green revolution—will be the first revolution in history that cannot promise material advancement in the same way that people have traditionally construed such advancement. But that does not mean we will be living immaterial lives, or that living much more modest…

House GOP Hires Lawyer to Prevent Federal Recognition of Same-Sex Marriage

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…at I should never have had to pay in the first place.” The Human Rights Campaign agreed: “Not only are House Republican leaders defending the indefensible, they’ve brought in a high priced attorney to deny federal recognition to loving, married couples,” said Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese. “Speaker Boehner appears ready to go to great lengths, and the great expense of a high-power law firm, to try to score some cheap political poin…