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Ross Douthat: Trump Is Women’s Fault for Not Having More Babies

By Patricia Miller

…t the sense of limited possibilities and social ennui experienced by Trump supporters, while real, isn’t a result of small families. It’s a result of the collapse of the industrial sector and the loss of well-paying, blue collar jobs—a decline caused in no small part by free-trade and winner-take-all policies supported by the Republican Party. Take, for instance, Monessen, Pennsylvania, the once-vibrant steel city about 30 miles south of Pittsburg…

Politics in a Fallen World: Lying, Fact-Checkers, and the Future of Civilization

By Michael Schulson

…essentially lying every time they open their mouth. I mean, I was a Bernie supporter, and I didn’t really think he meant we were going to get universal health care. I figured what he probably meant was that we could get the Medicare age down a bit. I suspect that’s been kind of a constant. It’s just people didn’t know, because who knew what kings were saying in the past? You didn’t have the media. Something we’ve been discussing here at RD is whet…

Tribal Trouble: The Changing Nature of American Jews’ Relationship to Israel and the Question of Jewish Unity

By Shaul Magid

…. As Waxman notes, “The era of ‘Israel, right or wrong’ is over. Nowadays, American Jewish support for Israel is much more complicated.” Progressive groups such as J-Street or Jewish Voice for Peace, who are openly critical of Israel (and in the case of JVP, support BDS), have caught the attention of many Millennial Jews who have no historical memory of Israel before 1967, no sentimentalism for an Israel that “made the desert bloom,” feel no nosta…

Why Cliven Bundy Wasn’t A Religious Right Hero

By Sarah Posner

…cation of his religious worldview served to insulate him from conservative flight. Bump writes that Robertson’s “comments about black Americans were buried under a rush to defend the right of Christian Americans to express disapproval of gays,” and that, compared to Bundy Robertson “did a much better job leveraging political sentiment in his favor after his controversial remarks.” But Robertson didn’t have to do much leveraging; his comments came…

The Man in the Red Dress: My Unlikely Friendship with Cardinal Francis George

By Cathleen Falsani

…man secure in his mortality, I thought as I craned my neck to look for the flight attendant refilling wine glasses. I recalled that unflinching newspaper when I learned Cardinal George had died last week after a lengthy battle with cancer, a disease he’d beaten twice before in the years since I left Chicago and the newspaper job that often put me in his company—whether I’d been invited or not. Cardinal George (or “Frannie G,” as some of us media c…

Trump Doesn’t Need to “Pivot” if Evangelicals Do it For Him

By Paul Harvey

…an” and warned that this election could be the final nail in the coffin of American liberty. Ladies and gentlemen, this is a Flight 93 election. This may be our last shot. It’s time to roll. It’s time to run down the aisle and save western civilization . . . This country is the equivalent of that hijacked plane right now. We’re headed to a disaster, unless we can get control of the cockpit again. Trump made clear what it meant to save Western Civi…

The Pope’s Gay Priests

By William J. Dohar

…risy to contend with. This points to the second curious reaction from most American bishops regarding Francis’ comments. They were careful to avoid the very topic that had brought Francis’ comments to light in the first place: gay priests. Nearly every statement that I came across veered far from the topic, finding safety not only in the church’s “unbroken tradition on homosexuality,” but in the comforting and inaccurate dichotomy of “us versus t…

The Lesser and the Greater Pilgrimage

By Amina Wadud

…icion that I would be more like myself and not so overwhelmed by the sheer numbers. I had stuck with this plan—umrah any time of the year, the further from the three sacred months the better, and then hajj some other year—until my recent stay in Indonesia. I met an Indonesian fashion designer who had one of those life-altering experiences about 15 years ago, after flaunting around in Milan, Italy, where she studied fashion. From that moment on, sh…

The Bleeding Heart of Muslim Europe

By Haroon Moghul

…There are lots of Bosnians, white and Western enough to pass for everyday Americans, though the occasional hijabs might throw you off. There are a few Americans, who seem to be intrepid backpackers. And I can’t figure out what the many Gulf Arabs are here for. (The Americans seated next to them seem just as perplexed, but additionally faintly alarmed.) Some of the Arabs are young, wide fellows with mighty beards and rust-colored thobes. Others ar…

The Collapse of the American Jewish Center

By Sarah Posner

…ctive Edge Israelis “have been living in a parallel universe to most of the rest of the world,” shielded from the “ever-increasing doses of scenes of horrendous suffering in Gaza” seen in elsewhere, including the United States. This poses risks for American Jews offering Israel that unquestioning support: that supporting the state has superseded supporting liberal values, and, more crucially, Jewish values, leading to a failure to reckon with the…