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Heroes: Sex and the Single Superhero

By Nick Street

…tion is a central feature of some of the myths that form the foundation of Western society. Nearly 5,000 years ago, an account of the tempestuous relationship between civilized Gilgamesh and a wild man named Enkidu marked the shift from oral to written culture in Mesopotamia. Achilles’ wrath at the murder of his lover Patroclus motors the plot of The Iliad, the earliest example of epic poetry in the Greek language. And the conquests of Alexander t…

The Untold Story of The Greatest Yiddish Poet in America

By Jerome E. Copulsky

…rk, having worked for several years at the National Yiddish Book Center in western Massachusetts collecting and cataloging old, forgotten Yiddish volumes, immersing himself in the language and literature of Eastern European Jews. Manseau has taken the stories he has heard and read, especially those of a generation of sweatshop workers on the Lower East Side who spent their free moments composing Yiddish literature, and woven them into a fantasy of…

Capitalism and the Anti-Modern Pope

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…litical zone larger now than ever before. The Modern West’s allegedly life-promoting institutions, precisely because of their excessive materialism, actually foster death. This is not a superficial analysis or critique, and there is much in it that a progressive secularist could agree with. Feminism and sexual ethics frame the issues where the two sides necessarily part company. It is important to recall that Catholic anti-Modernism is not new; it…

V-Day: An Arrow in the Heart

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…f February seem to make it harder to draw a sharp line between Eastern and Western Christianity as well. The third is Saint George of Mytilene, hailing from the Greek island of Lesbos. The erotic charge of that hometown calls the ancient Greek poet Sappho to mind, as well as the debates I have discussed previously about the meaning of the name “lesbian,” then and now. If Sappho was a passionate lover of women, and if she hailed from the island of…

RDBook: Darwin and Slavery

By Arri Eisen

…natural selection and adaptation that made him famous, have become part of Western myth. But how many of us knew that at many stops on the voyage, Darwin witnessed slavery at its worst? As we learn, Darwin once met and supped with a white general bent on eliminating an entire native South American tribe, and on another occasion witnessed the torture of a woman slave in thumbscrews. Such incidents confirmed Darwin in his strong belief in the evil o…

Don’t Blame Secularism: Reading Blind Spot: When Journalists Don’t Get Religion

By Jeffrey Feldman

…Islam is in many ways worse. As Michael Rubin notes: The General rule for Western correspondents in the Muslim world…is to report violence and political intrigue, but to ignore underlying religious tensions. This is especially true when disagreements involve doctrinal disputes within sects rather than fighting between sects or religions. One would have to be well into a fifth of whiskey to argue against Rubin’s opening position—to argue that most…

Osama and Orientalism: Where Islamophobes Meet Al-Qaeda

By Hussein Rashid

…t, by teaching it, settling it, ruling over it: in short, Orientalism as a Western style for dominating, restructuring, and having authority over the Orient. One of the propositions is that Orientalism is the study of people absent the people. It is the construction of a group identity predicated upon understanding their texts divorced from their own conceptions of those texts. A common way to dismiss Muslims who speak out against this marginaliza…

AIG: On Charisma and Routinization of Greed

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ad in common. The two features most commonly imagined by his predominately western audiences were the prophet as critic of institutional misbehavior and the prophet as predictor of the future. Weber was never particularly attracted by either idea. Instead, he offered an interpretation of the prophet that was notable for its elegant simplicity and broad comparative reach. The prophet, Weber suggested, is best defined as the unique bearer of charism…

Cinema and the Re-Creation of the World

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…andings of pilgrimage in general; apocalypse and anime, examining the ways Western apocalyptic visions are merged with Eastern visions in Japanese animated films like Neon Genesis Evangelion, Ghost in the Shell, and Akira; and the connection between animated films and hero myths, seeing how fascinating it is that, for instance, Finding Nemo, Shrek, and Princess Mononoke all evoke a quite rigid and classical hero mythical structure. Ultimately, tho…

Blood and Politics — Christian White Nationalism in the Age of Obama

By Bill Berkowitz

…hite nationalists who believe that “Christian-ness” is one aspect of their Western civilization—along with respect for tradition, authority, and Whites-only citizenship rights. For this wing of the movement, best exemplified in my book by a now-deceased Washington Times columnist Sam Francis, opposition to abortion is less a theological imperative and more a program plank alongside support for gun rights and opposition to immigration. Then there a…