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Will Mindfulness Change the World? Daniel Goleman Isn’t Sure

By Jay Michaelson

…hese practices, and his own presentations of them. I spoke with Goleman in Manhattan recently, as he prepared to meet the Dalai Lama. JM: I want to start with two aspects of the book. Part of it feels a bit like a leadership book—be the best you can be—and other parts felt like a prophetic warning that we’re all doomed. I’m exaggerating, of course, but I wonder how those two pieces play together. DG: And there’s actually a third piece, which is wh…

Trump’s Arrest ‘Prediction’ Inflames Holy War Narrative and Sanctifies Violence — Welcome to Trump ’24

By Thomas Lecaque

…out of the campaign in this moment. It likely won’t work. Mass protests in Manhattan? The DA’s office has set up barricades, and Proud Boys who tried to intimidate a Drag Story Hour hosted by New York Attorney General Letitia James met strong resistance. But it’s a rhetoric of eschatological violence, an apocalyptic framework that encourages violence against their political opponents. Waco is a campaign stop, but it’s also an emblem of anti-govern…

Obama Territory

By Nathan Schneider

…m section—you’ll hear Rev. Clinton M. Miller’s voice, rising over his microphone’s threshold, calling out through the static to responses from the packed pews. Mixed in all that, these days, you’ll probably hear something about Barack Obama, or at least his echoes—”hope,” “politics as usual,” “change.” Keep walking, past the humbler Progressive Glorious Church of God in Christ, and there is a man on his stoop selling t-shirts with the big, colorfu…

Bush Era to Blame for Renewed Interest in Mainline?

By Paul Harvey

…Yale University scholar who is working on a history of religion in modern Manhattan. “But religion comes in an incredible number of forms.” The dizzying varieties of American religious experience, scholars say, has roots nearly as deep as old-time religion. At the University of Virginia Mr. Hedstrom teaches a popular class called “Spiritual but Not Religious,” which traces the evolution of American spirituality from the 19th-century Transcendenta…

Loughner Admired Conspiracy-Minded Zeitgeist Film

By Sarah Posner

…tgeist,’” produced by Peter Joseph. The Z-Day event drew a crowd of 900 in Manhattan and others around the world: “The mission of the movement is the application of the scientific method for social change,” Mr. Joseph announced by way of introduction. The evening, which began at 7 with a two-hour critique of monetary economics, became by midnight a utopian presentation of a money-free and computer-driven vision of the future . . . . some basic th…

Hipsters v. Hasidim Over Brooklyn Bike Lane

By Nathan Schneider

…rth side of the Williamsburg Bridge, which crosses the East River to Lower Manhattan (an overpriced bastion of artists, ambitious émigrés, and wannabes), is the world capital of hipster fashion. Children and the elderly are nowhere to be seen, except as the remnants of the immigrant communities that have resisted selling to condo developers. “Normal” means skinny jeans, neon sunglasses, ironic tattoos, and something that is somehow shocking. On a…

Santorum from the Religion Angle

By Sarah Posner

…During the uproar over the proposed building of the Park51 center in lower Manhattan, Santorum entered the fever swamp of conspiracy theorists by claiming that Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf was a jihadist. But Santorum’s foray into the Islamophobia camp was nothing new: after he lost his Senate seat in 2006, he earned cash as the director of the conservative Ethics and Public Policy Center’s Program to Promote and Protect America’s Freedom, where he anoi…

The Mystic in the Rye: JD Salinger’s Religious Fiction

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ass family, the surprising brood produced by an old vaudeville family from Manhattan’s Upper East Side (the East 70s, to be exact… the museum district). Bessie (née Gallagher, though this family, if ever there were one, was a matriarchy) and Les Glass were both performers, but they landed their greatest role and expressed their deepest creativity in the children they produced. There were seven in all, but first among them was the eldest son, Seymo…

From Fox News to the Far(ther) Right — Calls for Violence and Retribution Follow Trump Verdict

By Annika Brockschmidt

…prosecutors will do. This can’t be 30 or 40 years ago when everybody has a Manhattan in the country club and talks about the Republican Party. We’re in a real war. Legal warfare is afoot and it’s time to return fire. To which Watters replied: Joe Biden, not mentally fit enough to stand trial but maybe some of his comrades could take a steel chair to the head. Figuratively of course. Referring to a professional wrestler of the 1980s, Travis shot ba…

Park 51 and RLUIPA, Or, Conservatives Hoisted On Their Petard

By Daniel Schultz

…the dreadful “debate” about the proposed Islamic community center in lower Manhattan has been how few people have picked up on a delicious irony: under the Federal Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, Park 51 is on solid legal footing. If you’re not familiar with RLUIPA, as it’s called, the basic thrust is to prohibit local governments from using zoning laws to limit unfairly how churches and other religious institutions use their…