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Reporting from Paris During COP21: A Haunted Sabbath

By Donna Schaper

…ies asking us to pay for their abuse of each other and the earth.” The New Republic once again put out its superb daily report, showing that coalitions were indeed developing between nations around their carbon goals. GreenFaith did its daily broadcast, once again targeting the bad guy of Saudi Arabia and wondering how they had spent their Sunday. They did not appear to have a brunch invitation. I walked by a totally dark Chinese embassy, which, n…

Was Alexander Hamilton Jewish? Does it Matter?

By Andrew Porwancher

…ion that Hamilton waged alongside fellow patriots—both Gentile and Jew—the new republic confronted a momentous question: Would the radical promise of equality enshrined in the Declaration of Independence now translate into democratic realities? A number of politicians sought to withhold the prerogatives of citizenship from Jews, from the courthouse to the ballot box. Against these forces of antisemitism, Alexander Hamilton sought to build an Ameri…

Can Islam Save The Economy?

By Nathan Schneider

…uslim country, Jordan, the central bank has been reluctant to approve many new Islamic institutions for fear that they might add an unstable element to the burgeoning financial industry. The banks that already do exist there have poor reputations. Because of cases like this, most observers doubt that Islamic finance will broaden its appeal beyond the pious. But according to Mohammad Ismaeel, the Director of Global Marketing for HSBC’s Islamic arm,…

Are Muslims Nuts?

By Haroon Moghul

…a fair number of African Americans, Hispanics, and Muslims who once voted Republican. They no longer do—not because they disagree with the Republican Party, but because they feel it has no room for them. It seems opposed to their presence in America. A good number in the Muslim-majority world feel the same way about the place of Islam in the world: there is no room for it. It isn’t that these Muslims don’t want democracy, or good relations. It is…

Broken Courts, Big Lies and Genocide Rehearsal: A Review of 2022—And What We Can Expect From 2023

By Annika Brockschmidt

…r LGBTQ children, and of course, LGBTQ people themselves. During 2022, the Republicans’ violent rhetoric reached new lows—and spawned real life violence. Thomas Lecaque and I predicted this several months ago when we drew parallels between the violent anti-abortion and anti-trans hate campaigns. It comes as no surprise that anti-abortion violence and anti-LGBTQ violence have both risen in 2022—and there’s no indication that this will slow down in…

Constitutional Ban on Same-Sex Marriage Headed for NC Vote

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…he people get to vote on everything), but instead live in a representative republic (where we elect and appoint people to set laws and standards for us), this red herring is especially pernicious. As we have seen from the recent Republican presidential candidate debates, if we actually let the people vote on what rights and privileges other citizens would enjoy, the people might implement a mandatory death penalty (possibly even for lessler infrac…

No, Sunni and Shia Muslims Have Not Been Fighting Forever

By Haroon Moghul

…lamist monarchy, i.e., Saudi Arabia, and a violent, authoritarian Islamist republic, Iran; if only, I often wish, there was some global agency with the moral clout to call for a time-out, and to see it through. To insulate the Muslim world from both these regimes. Their rhetoric infects the wider region; the cover of the New York Times suggests as much: now, whether they like it or not, all Sunni and Shia have to take sides. Or have sides taken fo…

The “Good Guy With a Gun” Myth

By Carlos Wilton

…tual was widely tolerated in the American colonies. After the birth of our republic, the practice persisted, surviving well into the 19th century. Dueling was even admired as the solemn responsibility of gentlemen: everyone knew what the phrase “meet me on the field of honor” meant. When running for president, Andrew Jackson—who had once killed a man in a duel—did not find that chapter of his biography a liability. At one time, most duels were fou…

Darwin in Rome: Burden of Diversity, Mystery of Time

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…mune of Rome, along with extensive private sponsorship, offers a brilliant new show in the large Exhibition Hall (literally a palace), centrally located near the Termini train station, and the old Roman Forum. On the Saturday afternoon of my visit, the exhibit was crammed with mostly Italian spectators, including schoolchildren on tour with teachers. The place was abuzz with activity and close crowds. The younger children were drawn to the terrari…

Is ISIS Islamic? Is it a State?

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…of salvation for those recruited into its ranks. In a recent essay in The New Republic, Graeme Wood described the core supporters of ISIS as an uneasy coalition of three groups: psychopaths, believers and pragmatists. The pragmatists are largely from Sunni regions of Syria and Iraq who have been disenfranchised by the Shi’a regimes of Bashir Assad in Damascus and Nouri al Maliki in Baghdad. On the other hand, the psychopaths and believers are oft…