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What Does Heidegger’s Anti-Semitism Mean for Jewish Philosophy?

By Aubrey L. Glazer

…gger’s misguided and vile attitude to the Jews is substantiated by other texts from this period. For example, in the protocols of the seminar “On the Essence and Concept of Nature, History, and State” (1933-34), after discussing the intricate relationship of homeland, fatherland, and the state, Heidegger weighs in on the status of nomads, deploying particularly disparaging words about “Semitic nomads” to whom the nature of the “German space” will…

Why Salma Hayek Adapting The Prophet for Screen Makes Sense

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…riter. Which brings us back to Salma Hayek. Although we think of her as “Mexican-American,” she is actually “Mexican-Lebanese-American.” Her ancestors left Lebanon in the late 19th or early 20th century in search of a better life, as did The Prophet’s author Kahlil Gibran. Gibran came to the U.S. 1895, at age 12, with his mother, two sisters and brother. Hayek, who is 47, has said that she was first introduced to The Prophet as a child by her gran…

South Asian Religious Leaders Challenged to Take on Stigma and Discrimination: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…rnational media. A reasonable question under the circumstances is what to expect next?” Tasmagambetov continued. His speech concluded to say that education should be based on building a society capable of resisting the “gay propaganda”. Lebanon: Legal Progress, Continued Peril for LGBTs The Inter Press Service News Agency reports this week on “The Darker Side for Gays in Lebanon.” In a country where civil liberties remain the prerogative of the po…

At the UN, Conservative Christian Agenda Cloaked in Human Rights Language

By Austin Dacey

…des Nations, home of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, six pre-adolescent children were declaiming a text that sounded very human-rights-ish, with articles—one for each youth—on protecting, respecting, and establishing a number of things. But if you had listened carefully, everything would have started to sound a bit off. The text being read was in fact not the 1989 human rights treaty but instead “A Declaration on the Rights of…

In Tea Party Senate Candidate’s Dissertation, A Nostalgia for a Populist Christian Nation

By Sarah Posner

…o school desegregation and the 1976 revocation of Bob Jones University’s tax-exempt status for its interracial dating ban as motivating forces for the religious right. Sasse conceded “nativist passions and racist status anxiety surely comprise part of the story, but not the whole of it.” Instead, he argues, the religious right “is better understood first as a consequence of fears about top-down communism—and about the evaporation of a religious un…

It’s The Apocalypse, Stupid: Understanding Christian Opposition to Obamacare, Civil Rights, New Deal and More

By Daniel Silliman

…that Jesus is coming back very very soon creates a sense of urgency, or anxiety or excitement that means there is no time to spare, because the clock is ticking and they’re almost out of time. The standard narrative of white evangelical history is a great withdrawal from culture in the 1920s and then a reengagement in the 1950s, leading to the religious right in 1980s. Do you want to revise that? Yes. That’s one of the historiographical arguments…

The Glorious, Ethnically-Challenged, Sisterhood of Spy

By Haroon Moghul

…as Eastern Europe against Western; swarthy Mediterraneans dragging down flaxen Nordics, even presently present with industrious Germany condescending to a Greece heading for the Grexit. Thanks for democracy but what have you done for us recently? Even the adjectives are ominous: Oriental. Balkan. Byzantine. Why explain what makes someone your enemy when you can just point to geography? Melissa McCarthy in Spy (20th Century Fox). Sure, Spy is about…

Pope’s US Visit Provokes Intense Attention; New Vatican Book on Man-Woman Complementarity & New Int’l Report on Christian Role Models for LGBT Equality; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…in the Dail, Ireland’s parliament; the first official marriages for same-sex couples are expected by year’s end. Posters headlined “Different Families, Same Love” have been sent to every school in Ireland, show “a number of families from different backgrounds – from same-sex parents to single parents, from grandparents raising a child to a childless couple with a dog.” The poster is meant to help teachers create inclusive classrooms and deter bull…

LGBT Human Rights in UN Sustainable Development Negotiation; Swiss Bishop Says Speaking of ‘Family Diversity’ is ‘Attack on the Creator’; Canadian Food Bank’s Anti-Gay Dogma; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…and even though stigma is common and longstanding laws criminalizing gay sex between men remain on the books. “I think we will look back on this and see it as a turning point because many persons thought that it would never actually happen,” said Latoya Nugent of the Jamaica Forum of Lesbians, All-Sexuals and Gays, or J-FLAG, the rights group that organized the event… “Yes, there’s still ridicule on the streets and some people look at you and laug…

Torture Denial: U.S. Flunks the Religious Acid Test

By Peter Laarman

…eir lives. Spiritual maturity allows individual persons and whole nations (Germany and South Africa, most notably) to pass through a necessary process of self-examination and repentance. Repentance first and foremost requires acknowledgement of the realities of the misdeeds; it requires honest self-examination. Today’s spate of denials, the “many misgivings” responses coming from the liberals, and the bitter attacks on the credibility of the Tortu…