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Yerushalmi, National Review, and a Conservative Fight Over Shari’ah

By Sarah Posner

…evil religion, or of blacks as the most murderous of peoples (at least in New York City), or of illegal immigrants as deserving of no rights.’ He also wrote that the American founders were on to something when they limited the vote to white men. ‘There is a reason the founding fathers did not give women or black slaves the right to vote.‘” (emphasis added) Yet Yerushalmi brought his fear-mongering about shari’ah to Capitol Hill staffers in 2010,…

Is Coverage of Liberal Religion a Media Fail?

By Sarah Posner

…ious subjects with contempt. I asked one person for examples. He cited the New York Times’ excellent Laurie Goodstein. If that’s an example of “contempt” I hope this person never watches Bill Maher. But undercutting even reporters who profess to be religious appears to be a conservative pastime. Conservatives complain about mainstream coverage of their religion, but one thing you never hear, or don’t hear very much, is liberal religious people com…

25 Things You Can Blame Muslims For

By Haroon Moghul

…ailed to secure the bonus that was promised to the first to sight land. 7. New York City Some Muslims and Jews were expelled from Catholic Spain as early as the 11th century—the last descendants of Muslims were driven out between 1609 and 1614—and some of these made common cause with a Spanish dependency, the Netherlands, which converted to Protestantism and likewise resented religious hegemony. (How the tables have turned.) Protestant Dutch and N…

Want To Know How 84% of the World Sees Itself: Study Theology

By Alana Massey

…ormation continues to influence trade relations” is integral to developing new approaches in areas like international development, conflict resolution, and economic growth. And for those who might argue that a survey course’s worth of theology is sufficient for tackling these issues, it’s important to note that nuanced and sophisticated theological notions do not require that believers have the ability to name-drop Karl Barth or Gustavo Gutiérrez…

Enlightenment’s Islam: A “Necessary Fiction”

By Rob Goodman

…ed target of the September 11th terrorist attacks. Rudy Giuliani, mayor of New York City during the attacks, is calling the mural “a desecration.” And former Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin tweeted that the “Muslim Mural is UNNECESSARY provocation.” Tempers are running even higher online, where noted blogger and Islam critic Pamela Geller called the mural “a stab in the eye”…. None of the above is really fictional. All of the qu…

Trickle-Down Metaphysics and the Dawn of a Trumpian New Age

By Michael Schulson

…was just ahead of his time. Born in Barbados, Neville lived and taught in New York City, where he said that he received mystical teachings from a mysterious Ethiopian Jew named Abdullah. His theology is complicated, and I won’t try to do it justice here. But some of his key conclusions about the relationship between the mind and the world crop up again in again in American thought. It’s not just The Secret. The basic idea here—that positive think…

Chocolate Will Make You Thin! Or: How Should We Trust Science?

By Michael Schulson

…d not suspect and discover the fabrication of the survey data,” Green told New York magazine, whose coverage of the situation has been excellent). Princeton offered LaCour a faculty position. It took six months after the study’s publication before David Broockman and Joshua Kalla, graduate students at UC-Berkeley, publicly identified the fundamental issues with a landmark study in a major field of social scientific inquiry. The second case is even…

“Reason to Worry”: An Anti-Semitism Scholar Opens Up on Trump, Misogyny and the Future of Anti-Judaism

By Michael Schulson

…built out of a real Jew. A while ago, Chris Rock did a long interview with New York magazine. Rock started talking about how he would cover racism in the U.S. if he were a journalist. He said—I’m paraphrasing here—that when journalists want to cover racism, they usually go and talk to black people. But black people are not the source of the problem! White people are. Rock said that he’d do a piece about racism where he only interviewed white peopl…

Purpose Driven Atheism: Secular Maharishis Seeking True Believers

By Frank Schaeffer

…logies than all religions combined. Or put it this way, the atheist says “Crusades!” and the religious believer answers “Pol Pot!” Are we to be stuck trading insults like schoolchildren, or is there a better way to discuss the two eternally unanswerable questions: the quest for ultimate meaning and the search for the origin of everything? At a time when Islamist extremists strap on bombs and blow up women and children; when the United States has j…

Who Would the Buddha Bomb?

By Danny Fisher

…onastics taking up arms. (Of course, one need look no further than today’s headlines for evidence of brutality perpetrated by Buddhists: the humanitarian crisis involving Burma’s Rohingya minority has been purposely aggravated by the fanatical monk U Wirathu and his “969 Movement.”) In his book An Introduction to Buddhist Ethics, Peter Harvey chalks these seeming inconsistencies between Buddhist peacefulness in theory and practice up to “unresolve…