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Looking at Death: Images of 9/11, Before, During, and After

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…e-stop shopping for the morbid mind.” Alongside videos of autopsies and embalming procedures, they sell a couple documentary videos on September 11—one of which donates proceeds to the “Twin Tower Fund,” set up my Mayor Giuliani. Another video offers images of “people jumping to their death.” But years before the Internet, in 1928, Tom Howard strapped a miniature camera to his ankle and photographed the electrocution of Ruth Synder. The photo was…

Americans Lose Faith, Sinning with Transfats, the Elusive God Particle

By Michael J. Altman

This week’s earthquake along the East Coast damaged the National Cathedral in Washington DC. Church attendance is dropping faster among those who don’t have college degrees. Meanwhile, Duke sociologist Mark Chaves finds that Americans are losing faith in their religious leaders. When it comes to baptisms, some are dunkers and some are drunkers. A Sacramento priest showed up to an infant baptism too inebriated to sprinkle the kids. The priest has…

Jews and Baseball: A Reflection on a Longtime Love Affair

By Rebecca T. Alpert

…working on for the past ten years, Out of Left Field: Jews and Black Baseball. Along the way, I have also taught a “Jews and Sports” course, written several academic articles on Jewish baseball themes, and appeared as a talking head in a documentary, Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story. I have even become a serious baseball fan again, having lapsed since my childhood. Although I never stopped following the game after the Dodgers left Brook…

Breivik’s Demographic Warfare and the American Right’s Demographic Winter

By Sarah Posner

…of the sexual revolution. But for the first time in a long time, the “natural family” has a white knight in Europe: brave Poland, the anti-Sweden. Following Pope John Paul II’s philosophy that particular countries can change the course of Europe, Poland has been heralded in US profamily literature as the likely salvation of the continent: a heavily Catholic bastion of conservatism amid the gay-friendly EU. Under the leadership of the Kaczynski bro…

Is Norway’s Suspected Murderer Anders Breivik a Christian Terrorist?

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…the “mudpeople” (non-white, non-Christian, non-heterosexual, non-patriarchal males) were trying to take over the country. To save the country for Christendom the righteous white, straight, non-feminist Christian males had to be shocked into reality by the force of an explosion that would signal to them that the war had begun. These were McVeigh’s ideas from The Turner Diaries, but they were also Breivik’s. “The time for dialogue is over,” Breivik…

A Peek Inside the ‘Onion’ of Scientology

By Kristin Rawls

…truly honest; but their job is to present their viewpoint, like any official, really. I had three 16- or 17-hour days with top Church officials when I worked on the magazine piece. They try to exhaust you, and they were basically there to spin me. I had access to Mike Rinder, their top PR guy, then ranked second or third in the Church hierarchy. Rinder and another top official, Tommy Davis, had a lot to say. I got answers from them about specific…

Austrian Court Okays Head-Colander in Driver’s License: Is Pastafarianism Becoming a Religion?

By Joseph Laycock

…ffiti. In addition to Skepticon, Pastafarians have also created International Talk Like a Pirate Day, Pastover, and Ramendon. For functionalists, it is irrelevant whether Pastafarians sincerely believe in their noodly deity. This shared body of symbols and practices has spawned an esprit de corps, uniting philosophical atheists and agnostics into a moral community, meaning that Pastafarianism may well be on its way to becoming a religion—in both t…

The Silly Calls for Congress to Investigate Planned Parenthood

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…s. Indeed, maybe for those reasons it hardly matters. But say you’re noncommittal, and yet for some reason you find yourself reading the 31-page document with an appendix many times that lengthy. What would you conclude? Well, I’m not noncommittal, so I can only speculate. My hunch, my guess, is that you’d think: Oh. Um. Why do they think this is a job for Congress? Because that’s what the report is intended to do: make the case for a thorough con…

The Google Question of Evil

By Michael Schulson

…t is almost allegorical: in place of a broadly construed set of sociocultural values, Google relies instead on the edict of the engineer….Even back in the pre-IPO salad days of 2003, Schmidt explained “Don’t be evil” via its founders’ whim: “Evil is what Sergey says is evil.” I’m no philosopher, but I’m pretty sure there are books about evil other than the Bible. And I’m not a right-wing religious pundit, but I’m also pretty sure that Google has f…

The Sacred and the Dead: Operator, Can You Help Me?

By Maren Haynes

…punk musician and anarchist whose father was dying of a late-diagnosed terminal illness. The 20-year-old who lived in his VW van in Montana, homeless after foster care failed him and a grave illness left him broke, who read physics textbooks and Derrida for fun. The college graduate/tree-feller/agriculturalist who lived in a co-op house closet under the stairs, like Harry Potter. And so many others. For a few years in my early-to-mid-20s, I lived…