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Obama to Cave on Bush Tax Cuts: Letter to the Washingtonians, Chapter 1

By Daniel Schultz

…those who love members of their own gender, counseled patience when people are starving, been prudent when they are cheated out of their homes, been mindful of upsetting the banks and the deficit hawks when they needed investment in the economy to work. You have done nothing to end the war in Iraq, nothing to end the war in Afghanistan. And now that you have reaped what you have sown, you call for more compromise. Because you have failed to take t…

Burning Man in the Age of Rick Perry: Revelation, Pluralism, and Moral Imperative

By Jay Michaelson

…to wonder why there’s a temple in the middle of it, why people come back year after year even if they don’t do drugs, or, for that matter, how it is that the art, community, and culture of Black Rock City is constructed without a Them putting on entertainments for Us, much more can be received. Generally speaking, those who intend to be open in this way come away changed by the experience. I’ve been to dozens of “festivals,” and some of them ha…

Good Hair, Good God! The Divine Politics of African-American Hair

By Anthea Butler

…re, from the research of my book. The Marriage of Hinduism and Black Hair Care Apart from being a good film, Good Hair has a religious subtext that is important to look at within the context of the study of religion. You see, most of the “weave hair” (if you don’t know what a weave is, hit the link—you’ll understand) comes from the practice of tonsure, or ritual haircutting, in Hinduism. The sacrifice of hair to the gods is the source of much of t…

To Let It Go and So To Find A Way: U2, (A)Live with Grief and Grace

By Cathleen Falsani

…ildren, forging bonds of sacred friendship and creative collaboration that are rare anywhere—and likely unique in the annals of rock’n’roll. Many of the people involved in helping the four band members make music have been with them for decades. Theirs is a fiercely loyal tribe. Once you’re in, you’re in, a bit like salvation by grace, I suppose. Waves of Regret, Waves of Joy Anyone who has listened even casually to U2 knows that the spiritual wor…

Playlist #1: Indie Rock’s Dark Night of the Soul

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…k Robots) The Mountain Goats, “Isaiah 45:23” (from The Life of the World to Come) Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, “God is In the House” (from No More Shall We Part) PJ Harvey, “You Said Something” (from Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea)…

Can Expelled Teach Us a Thing or Two?

By Arri Eisen

…won’t work because the idea of an Intelligence or a Creator, and most similar ideas of religion, are non-falsifiable, non-testable, in the way that any scientific idea must be. I argue to introduce alternate ideas in the science classroom, but in a different way. And here is where I part company with most of my colleagues who say, ‘Creationism and intelligent design belong in history or religion class, but in my classroom I only teach science. Bes…

Swift-Boat Veterans of American Jewry Charge Anti-Semitism at Occupy Wall Street

By Jay Michaelson

…isemitism, circa 1880-1945. So in a way, the couple of bigots at Zuccotti Park are just connecting the dots between Occupy’s agenda and their own. The main difference, of course, is that Occupy’s target is real, whereas the antisemite’s is a fantasy. Which is a pretty big difference. All this would be insignificant were it not for the significant financial backing of ECI, and its association with respectable conservatives like Fox News commentator…

What a Turn-of-the-Century Anti-Abortion and Contraception Crusader Reveals About GOP Efforts to Ban Abortion Pills by Mail

By Steven K. Green

…s responsible for approximately 15 suicides of people he’d investigated.) Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, had to flee the country to avoid prosecution under the Comstock Act (though her husband, William Sanger, unfortunately served time in jail for publishing her birth-control pamphlet Family Limitation). Readers can probably anticipate where this history lesson is going. Since the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the right…

David Bowie’s “Heroes,” the Soundtrack of a Spiritual Libertine

By Ed Simon

…s awoke this morning, shocked to see the tributes to the somehow-more-than rock star that died today, only three days after the release of his last album. Cynics can smugly have their cringes of superiority when the public collectively mourns the death of celebrities; Bowie was fucking great, his passing deserves our tears. If Bowie made life not just tolerable, but luminescent for the gay kid in the rural Midwest or for the art-school girl in nor…

An Open Letter to CEO Jeff Smisek On United Airlines’ Blasphemous Safety Video

By Austin Dacey

…sumably to such “derivative works.” Yet I also know that as a graduate of Harvard Law, you must appreciate the difference between legal permission and moral propriety. I would welcome the opportunity to sit with you so as to attempt to move your conscience to my conviction that we must humble ourselves before this sublime work. But for now I will not rest, I will not sit back, relax, and enjoy the flight, until I hear the end of this violation. An…