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Blame Series Bonus: Why We Want That Dish For Free, an Uncut Interview with Bertram Malle

By Andrew Aghapour

…nfairness. We have put in our part—we went to the airport, we paid for our ticket, we spent our time, we stood in line—and then the flight was cancelled. So there’s a discrepancy between the inputs and the outputs, there’s a sense of injustice and unfairness—that’s why compensation is so important. That’s also why dissatisfied customers at restaurants want to get their dish for free, or get a free glass of wine, or a free dessert, because that bal…

A Meditation on Shopping and Desire

By Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado

…ds and advertisements that tell us our life is not enough without that new phone, that new gadget, that new dress. And yet the minute you purchase your phone or laptop, it is obsolete. Every six months, fashion editors tell us our entire closet is out—our clothing is disposable. Shopping is not only a lifestyle, it is a form of entertainment. Whether it is infomercials and shopping networks or makeover shows, we not only shop, we watch people shop…

U.S. Religious Right Groups Support Move Toward ‘Illiberalism’ of Hungary and Poland; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…and homosexuality itself as treason. We are two activists, from Cairo and New York respectively, who know the Egyptian situation well. While this panic might seem like an outbreak of collective insanity, our experiences—and recent history—confirm it’s not. Egypt’s persecution of LGBTQ people is a calculated strategy. (It imitates an equally political campaign against gays launched in 2001 by the Mubarak dictatorship, this time on a vaster scale.)…

Catholic Cardinal Slams Jesuit’s Bridge-Building Book; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ays Iranian Kamiar Alaei, a human rights expert at the State University of New York. Australia: Campaign on Marriage Vote Gets Ugly, Equality Portrayed as Threat to Church, Kids The public campaign is underway on the non-binding referendum-by-mail on marriage equality that is scheduled to be undertaken in Australia—even though the mail ballot is still facing a court challenge. Marriage equality advocates had strongly opposed the vote, but are now…

Beck Fuels End-Times Hysteria Over Egypt

By Anthea Butler

…Report are just a few of the blogs and websites referring to the events in Egypt as a sign of the end or — more ominously — the beginning of a new war. Conspiracy monger Glenn Beck has of course jumped with both feet into the fray, repeatedly referring in the last week to one of his favorite obscure books, “The Coming Insurrection.” Beck, without having to say anything religious, recites every end-time theme; fire, riots, Islam, Israel, you name i…

Corporations Have Consciences and Contraceptives Are Cheap: Hobby Lobby at the Supreme Court

By Sarah Posner

At oral argument in Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. and Conestoga Wood Specialties, Inc. v. Sebelius this morning, the Supreme Court justices spent a great deal of time questioning the lawyers in the case about whether corporations have a religious conscience, and whether Congress intended to protect it when enacting the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA). What was most striking, though, was how all three female justices, Sonia So…

The Christian Roots of the New Age: The Aquarian Gospel

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…n he sets out again on a Cretan vessel called Mars, and sets his sights on Egypt. In Egypt, the land of ancient wisdom, Jesus is reunited with Elihu and Salome, the two who had instructed his mother. He regales them with stories of his travels and his casual experiments with the wisdom traditions of the world; they are delighted to witness Jesus’ development (and also, one suspects, to see the superiority of their own teachings confirmed in him)….

Will International Criminal Court Bring Charges Against ISIS For Gender-Based Persecution?; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…The City University of New York School of Law has teamed up with Madre, a New York-based women’s rights group, and the Organization for Women’s Freedom in Iraq to petition the International Criminal Court to bring charges against the Islamic State for gender-based persecution, reports BuzzFeed’s Lester Feder: The ICC is not obligated to take up these charges, but if Bensouda were to convinced to do so, they would be the first criminal cases for L…

What is ‘The Square’ that Beat Mubarak?

By H.A. Hellyer

…ation; and most of all, it existed in the innocent lives that were lost. Egypt now has a huge challenge in front of it—one that may well be larger than the one they have just overcome. The expectation on the part of many is that all of the problems of Egypt will now be solved—but disappointment will almost surely follow. Yet one hopes that the people of Egypt have shown themselves what is possible when people work together for a common good. They…

The End of the Beginning: The Coming of Egypt’s “Wise Men”

By H.A. Hellyer

…aders for themselves. Perhaps somewhere in those crowds are the seeds of a new political party, or people whose names will be known for decades to come – but so far, we have not seen them. But that does not mean that the regime does not have someone to talk to. They do – and those are the ‘wise-men’ who are, at this moment, negotiating with the government for an orderly transition. These wise men are some of the most well known names in Egyptian s…