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The Democrats’ Real Religion Problem, And All Of Ours

By Daniel Schultz

…e anything to do with it? A: Class has nothing to do with it. Q: Does partisan affiliation have anything to do with it? A: Partisan affiliation has nothing to do with it. Q: Does gerrymandering have anything to do with it? A: Gerrymandering has nothing to do with it. Q: Does political polarization have anything to do with it? A: Political polarization has nothing to do with it. Democrats must learn to speak the language of faith. Q: Does social so…

News Flash: Buddhist-Majority Countries Just as Complicated as Muslim-Majority

By Haroon Moghul

…under not good, and the country’s most famous democratic personality, Ang San Suu Kyi, has been disturbingly quiet, preferring not to speak out; whatever her reasons may be, her silence is as they say deafening. In addition to the country’s long history of ethnic and sectarian conflict, the plight of its Muslim population continues to worsen, with evidence of human trafficking of Burmese Muslim refugees now surfacing. The violence threatens to sp…

AIDS Anniversary: Thirty is the New Eternity

By Susan Henking

…ed ribbons reappear here, there, and everywhere, sometimes (as recently in San Francisco) in startlingly huge forms. This year, for the 30th, the Smithsonian is undertaking an exposition. Alongside the NASA: Art (another anniversary linked to endings) and the ongoing celebration/commemoration of the Civil War’s 150th, the American History Museum opened an exhibit on June 3 entitled “Archiving the History of an Epidemic: HIV and AIDS, 1985-2009.” I…

Death Couture: Not For Halloween Only

By Stephen Andes

…rug war exploded onto the American popular landscape. Some believe that La Santa Muerte derives from Aztec devotion to the god and goddess of death. Other theories suggest that the devotion stems from late-medieval European practices of protection from plague, where individuals would don scapularies depicting skulls as prophylactics against the disease. Yet the modern Mexican devotion is firmly rooted in local religious practice, which draws on th…

Buddhism And Politics in Myanmar: An Author Interview

By Matthew Walton

…mese monk asked this American to talk with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi about vipassana (insight) meditation, as she had recently started to rediscover this part of her heritage. This was a time of incredible intellectual ferment for her—you can see it in some of her writings and speeches of the period—when she was attempting to weave together Buddhism, democracy, rights, etc. Hearing about these discussions fascinated me, and while the retreat was sort o…

The Problem with AMC’s Sci-Fi Hit Humans

By Andrew Aghapour

…e replaced by a complex automated system like the University of California San Francisco’s robotic pharmacy, which is capable of producing hundreds of thousands of labeled doses of medicine without error. This is part of the growing trend within large-scale manufacturing to replace teams of people with customized, automated systems. As John Markoff recently detailed, robotic arms are now picking the lettuce we eat, operating the grocery distributi…

Our Lady of Good Hope and Excellent Behavior: Why this Apparition and Why Now?

By Lisa Bitel

…hands-off approach to reported apparitions, at least in the U.S. As a diocesan archivist in Sacramento told me, when I telephoned to ask about a vision event in the Mojave Desert, “it’s nothing we’re trained about.” They get a half-dozen letters or emails every year from folks claiming they’ve seen “Christ in a marshmallow,” he added, and as far as he’s concerned, a report of apparitions is a “non-event.” Perhaps Sacramento isn’t keeping up with p…

Evangelicals ‘Crossing the Tiber’ to Catholicism

By Jonathan D. Fitzgerald

…tholic Christianity as a factor in his conversion, but he also points to a number of other courses that he took at King’s that led him to the point of conversion. He says of the college’s curriculum that it is “not a ‘great books curriculum’ but it draws heavily on the liberal arts tradition.” He adds, “You can’t study the liberal arts without confronting the rich history of Catholicism.” Indeed The King’s College is a microcosm of the larger comm…

Just Like January 6, One of the Most Disturbing Aspects of the Right-Wing Coup Attempt in Germany is Who Was Behind It

By Annika Brockschmidt

…estigation; 20 soldiers were under investigation recently, while the total number of suspected cases within the KSK amounts to 50. Be it Nazi symbols on police seats, far-right messages in secret chat groups, swastikas, or Hitler imagery—again and again politicians claimed that German law enforcement and the military had no structural problem with far-right elements. For years, journalist and researcher Dirk Laabs warned of potential future terror…

Why are Nuns and Monks in the Streets? (Parts I & II)

By José Cabezón

…he early afternoon, cameras in hand. It is not uncommon for tourists to outnumber monks in the debate courtyards during this time. This is obviously disruptive, making a spectacle out of a serious educational pursuit. Monastic response to the Chinese government policy of limiting monastic enrollments is at least in part the result of a clash between the secular, materialist, security-concerned worldview of the Chinese state, and the religious, tra…