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Welcome to the (New) Gilded Age: Supreme Court Delivers the Goods to Corporations

By Peter Laarman

…hat corporations enjoy; and please try to convince me that a company like Exxon-Mobil is going to worry a lot about alienating shareholders whose holdings stand to benefit handsomely from the work of a key Senatorial friend over here, or a compliant governor over there. Remembering Babylon: That Gilded Age and This One We should mark 1886 for its singular gift to the robber barons. This was the year in which the Supreme Court declared, in Santa Cl…

‘Christian Warriors’: Who Are The Hutaree Militia And Where Did They Come From?

By Chip Berlet

…erg: Perhaps the most striking scene in the Left Behind series is the climax of book six, The Assassins [when] Carpathia is speaking at a mass rally in Jerusalem. Out in the crowd is [underground Christian resistance leader] Rayford Steele, armed with a high-tech handgun. He prays for God’s guidance, and finds himself firing what appears to be a fatal shot at Carpathia. Intentionally or not, this is an eerie rewrite of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzh…

Will the Religious Side with Workers?

By Peter Laarman

…ress is anyone’s guess. I still take the Gramscian position toward social change: pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will. And I never cease to hope for new light and new energy from the heart of faith around the rights and dignity of working people….

Double Helix: Science & Religion as Cultural Kindling; A Response to The New Republic

By Arri Eisen

…rgument and why it’s so weak. God-of-the-gaps goes like this: science can explain everything except blank (depending on the historical moment, fill in the blank with: how the earth moves around the sun, why we look like our parents, why the proteins in a bacterial flagellum work the way they do, why only humans can write columns like this), so God must be—or be responsible for—blank. The problem with this, which Coyne complains both Giberson and M…

It’s Not a Tea Party, Silly, It’s a Rebellion

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…arly 1790s, and shortly thereafter, on the advice of Alexander Hamilton, a new excise tax was imposed on the fledgling nation. This prompted yet another rebellion, the so-called Whiskey Rebellion of 1794. This one started in nearby Pennsylvania, mostly among Scottish and Irish immigrants, for whom whiskey was an important commodity, as well as a way of life. They did not accept the federal government’s right to tax it. President Washington found h…

A Dismayed Democrat Reads the Bible

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…at we would call a vision—and the people that are with Paul do not see or experience exactly what he does. In addition to that, when Paul provides a list in 1 Corinthians 15:3-8 of the people to whom Jesus appeared he not only uses the word ‘appeared’ four times, which is standard for a vision, he includes himself in that list. Paul sees the experiences that the other followers of Jesus had of Jesus after his death as belonging in the same categor…

Is the Metaverse the Hero We Need to Rescue Us From Suffering and Enchant the World?

By Robert M. Geraci

…rd. But while the literary reincarnation of the metaverse keeps leading to newer and better worlds, the real-world technology has a more fraught history. Those of us who were attending to virtual worlds in the first decade or so of the 21st century watched the hype wave over Second Life (SL) and similar environments crest and then crash, largely because multinational corporations couldn’t find a good way to hawk their traditional wares and so pull…

Tribal Trouble: The Changing Nature of American Jews’ Relationship to Israel and the Question of Jewish Unity

By Shaul Magid

…ng a series of interlocking problems and challenges that include but also exceed any external threat to their existence or the existence of the state of Israel. The fear that love and support of Israel that held Jews together for the past decades is unraveling has given rise to the misuse, and sometimes irresponsible, accusation of anti-Semitism. What Judaism, especially in America, might look like if legitimate Jewish identity were severed from s…

Goodbye, (Mythic) Columbus

By Ira Chernus

…us (RIP) said nothing about new ideas or worlds within. It was all about a new land, a new world defined strictly geographically. As long as the myth was vibrant, it assured Americans that they needed no sophisticated concepts. The land of the United States itself (which became, in the U.S. version of the myth, synonymous with the “America” Columbus “discovered”) would be the paradise Columbus sought. It would exude all of his mythic qualities: co…

New Spencer Book Denies Existence of Muhammad

By Hussein Rashid

…hat they could at the time to stop it. Modern scholars are revisiting the existing corpus with new tools and methods. Why a famous mosque inscription may refer not to Muhammad but, astonishingly, to Jesus. Stumped by this one. No idea what it refers to. How the oldest records referring to a man named Muhammad bear little resemblance to the now-standard Islamic account of the life of the prophet. But, but earlier Spencer says we don’t have any ear…