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It’s All In Your Head: Patricia Churchland’s Touching a Nerve

By Andrew Aghapour

…ut fire is also a revolutionary technology for early humans; an ecological agent and economic force on the American West coast; a symbol of passion; an arbiter of s’mores; a weapon; a preferred stove-top technology in bourgeois kitchens; and a widely-imagined symbol of eternal damnation. Atop molded wax, fires can denote age and engender vigils. Fire was a powerful agent in the expansion of the American nation-state, the dawn of the Neolithic Revo…

Among the Problems with Trump’s Proposed Ban: Who is a Muslim?

By Michael Schulson

…ies), co-host Willie Geist asked about logistics: Geist: Donald, a customs agent would then ask the person his or her religion? Trump: It would be probably—they would say, “Are you Muslim?” Geist: And if they said “Yes,” they wouldn’t be allowed in the country? Trump: That’s correct. So: who’s a Muslim? And who gets to say? This is not about semantics. By acting as if there’s a commonly agreed-upon definition of Muslim, people across the political…

The Glorious, Ethnically-Challenged, Sisterhood of Spy

By Haroon Moghul

…anov (played by a fantastic Rose Byrne), the CIA doesn’t just lose a great agent. Because Boyanov has the identities of all other CIA agents, which means no one can stop her. Or, rather, almost no one. Enter Susan Cooper, the only human being—in the WORLD—who can track down a network of criminals intent on setting off a bomb in New York City. At least the threat isn’t implausible: New York’s the greatest city in the world, and Chicagoans need to s…

A Jew in Church? No Big Deal

By Benjamin Weiner

…por, Cohen, an Orthodox Jew in his mid-thirties, proposes (to his literary agent, apparently) to spend a year visiting 52 churches, one for every Sunday. The result is a prime example of the mushrooming genre of stunt writing (like A.J. Jacobs’ The Year of Living Biblically) in which a contrivance of questionable philosophic value is carried to its logical conclusion; if for no other reason than to further the career of an ambitious young writer….

Birtherism, Conspiracy Theories, and the “Christian Nation”

By Sarah Posner

…senhower gone on television to establish that he wasn’t a secret communist agent. Except that Obama’s place of birth is much easier to prove, and has already been proven, unlike Ike having to prove a negative.) Today, Obama denounced “sideshows and carnival barkers,” adding, “we don’t have time for this kind of silliness.” Which is exactly why he shouldn’t have bothered caving into their ridiculous demands; within moments Joseph Farah of WND decre…

McCarthy, Born Again and Retooled for Our Time

By Sarah Posner

…rt Welch’s assertion that President Eisenhower was “a dedicated, conscious agent of the Communist conspiracy.” Noebel told me, in reference to Obama, that he prefers Stanley Kurtz’s Radical in Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism to D’Souza, but ultimately “they end up in the same ballpark.” Noebel, or “Doc” as his devotees call him, is the doyen of Summit Ministries, the Manitou Springs, Colorado-based institution foun…

You Asked For It

By Amina Wadud

…More Muslims participate in the fast than any other ritual. Let’s get the numbers in our head then: of the 1.3 billion Muslims, if less than half are children and even children fast, then you could say almost a billion Muslims are fasting. I don’t think we can make a case about Ramadan and what ever number of incidents that might occur due to some individual Muslims. There is no statistical corollary between fasting, Islam, Muslims and the (still…

The Return of Christian Terrorism

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…lar to just-war doctrine: when one is authorized to do so by “a covenantal agent” in wartime, to defend one’s household, to execute a convicted criminal, to avenge the death of one’s kin, to save an entire nation, or to stop moral transgressors from bringing bloodguilt on an entire community. Hill, joined by Bray, responded to North’s letter. They argued that many of those conditions applied to the abortion situation in the United States. Writing…

“I Had No Intention to Write Atheistically”: Darwin, God, and the 2500-Year History of the Debate

By Edward J. Larson

…XVI, who cries out: Benedict: Strepsiades, you called for God? I am God’s agent on earth. Strepsiades: I did not call for God, I merely cried Good God. But since you are here, let me ask you about torture. Can it ever be right? Benedict: Never, God’s law forbids torture. Dawkins: If that is “true,” as you call it, why did the Church torture heretics during the inquisition? Benedict: That was to glorify God and His truth, not to serve humans and t…

Russian Operative Maria Butina, Who Leveraged Christian Right Connections, Sentenced For Conspiracy

By Becky Garrison

…th prison term Friday in Washington after failing to register as a foreign agent for conspiring to infiltrate conservative U.S. political circles for the Kremlin. In December, Butina pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to act as a Russian agent in the U.S. without registering with the Justice Department. While her case has been handled separately from the Mueller investigation, this case also exposed the various means employed by Moscow to i…