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Cleansing Monsters: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

By Joseph Laycock

…he British at Lexington and Concord, but used their political influence in France to procure its assistance. The United States was created as a haven where vampires were safe from European vampire hunters and enjoyed the freedom to feast on the blood of whomever they wished. Most importantly, the vampires wanted to secure the institution of slavery, which gave them easy access to human blood. Slave auctions were, for American vampires, the equival…

New Book Stokes Fear of a Muslim Europe

By Bruce B. Lawrence

…ish, and Scandinavian parliamentarians but especially President Sarkozy of France for their concessions to ‘diversity.’ Reserving his strongest condemnation for “the double language” of Tariq Ramadan, Caldwell cannot find a single modern-day Muslim leader worthy of praise, unless it be Aayan Hirsi Ali. The Somali-Dutch activist, of course, is no longer a Muslim, and that is what fills Caldwell with glee: “More than any other Westerner,” he crows,…

Behind New Zealand Terror Attack Is a Problem Bigger Than Islamophobia

By Murali Balaji

…ements. The resentment-bred, reactionary politics of the National Front in France and far-right movements across Europe were tied to insecurities about what it meant to be a citizen of a particular country. Breivik weaponized that sentiment in 2011 with his terror attack, and Roof cited similar sentiments after slaughtering congregants of an African American Church in 2015. We are distracted by incidents of mass murder and terror, and assume white…

Secular End Times & Apocalyptic ‘Roosters’

By Gordon Haber

…ple clung to their practices. Like the Xhosa, the leaders of revolutionary France did not give up when faced with apocalyptic disappointment. Unlike the Xhosa, the French turned to human slaughter. If the Revolution was not enough to free mankind, the “coercive purity” of the guillotine would finish the job. Landes estimates that by end of the Reign of Terror, “some four hundred thousand French, men, women, and children, monarchists, revolutionari…

Mexican Bishops Exorcism Against Equality; African Bishops Oppose ‘Enemy of Human Race’; Israeli Islamic Leader Anti-Gay Op-Ed

By Peter Montgomery

…t of day, not almost in secret like some of their colleagues from Germany, France, and Switzerland, who had gathered a few days before at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. But while at the Gregorian the objective was changing the Church’s stance on divorce and homosexuality, in Accra the push was in the other direction. The marching route was indicated from the very first remarks by Guinean cardinal Robert Sarah, prefect of the congrega…

Religious Freedom Historian John Ragosta on “Religious Freedom”

By Frederick Clarkson

…ore.” Although his remarkable life included being President, Ambassador to France, and Secretary of State, he wanted to be remembered as author of the Declaration of Independence, “Father of the University of Virginia,” and author of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom. Why, among his many accomplishments did he so want to be remembered for this 18th century law that most Americans have never heard of? Jefferson saw these three things as th…

The Children of Bellow and Roth: New Book of Short Fiction Takes On the Male Jewish Experience

By Stephanie Russell-Kraft

…her stories, protagonists attempt to find their way in Poland, England and France. Haber, who also writes criticism and journalism, is the co-founder of e-book publisher Dutch Kills Press, which published Uggs for Gaza in March. RD spoke with him to learn more about the questions of ethnicity posed by the collection and what it means to be Jewish in America today. The following interview has been edited for length and clarity. This collection, in…

Pigging Out: What ‘Radically Unkosher’ Jewish Foodies Like Michael Pollan Are Missing

By Jonathan Schorsch

…as identity-marker continues more subtly to this day in places like urban France, where Jews and Muslims who don’t eat pig are often still seen as outsiders, as discussed by French political scientist Pierre Birnbaum in his latest book, La République et le Cochon (The Republic and the Pig). English Food writer Jane Grigson reiterates such othering when asserting that “It could be said that European civilization… [has] been founded on the pig. […]…

Is Liberalism Islamic?: An Interview with Mustafa Akyol

By Haroon Moghul

…ry with the highest percentage of Muslims in its population is not the UK, France, or Germany but Bulgaria. Yet you never hear about Bulgaria’s “Muslim question,” for its Muslims are native Turks and Pomaks who have been living in that country for centuries. As for the Arab Spring, I am of course very supportive of it, for it is toppling or challenging the dictators who oppressed Arab societies for decades. (Right now, I am keeping my fingers cros…

Here Comes President Boo Boo: Trump’s Tour as Reality TV

By Spencer Dew

…ul Pope Francis. In Europe, he participated in both a tense handshake with France’s newly elected President Macron and the shoving aside of the prime minister of Montenegro in a rush to his front row spot for a group photograph with NATO leaders. Trump also delivered a “public shaming,” which elicited its own telling irruptions of realness from those leaders. Each film clip documents holes drilled through the façade of the event, glimpses of the r…