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RDBook: Bernard Avishai’s The Hebrew Republic

By Mitchell Plitnick

…nomy, as Avishai demonstrates. Instead of a neoliberal economics based on crude structural adjustment policies and de-regulation, Avishai proposes a more practical, market-based economic vision rooted in sustainability, and dependent on increasing social and political progress. Where Netanyahu believes that peace is a nice but unnecessary addition to Israel’s long-term economic stability, Avishai recognizes that it is a long-term necessity. Avisha…

Something So Broken: What’s Frightening About Beasts of the Southern Wild

By Michael Pasquier

…New Orleans to parts of Louisiana that, in the words of Zeitlin, “kind of crumble off into the sinews down in the gulf where the land is getting eaten up.” He made his way to Terrebonne Parish, where he found inspiration on a narrow strip of land surrounded by a dilapidated ring of levees built to protect the two dozen remaining French and Indian families of Isle de Jean Charles from hurricanes and anything else the Gulf of Mexico throws at them. …

Trump May Be the End of the World As We Know It—But For Some Evangelicals, That’s Just Fine

By Nelle Smith

…cal support. A distinct subset of evangelical Christians know that Donald Trump is bad news for the entire world—and they’re really, really excited about it. I know this because I used to be one of them. Back in the ’90s, I was bright-eyed, home-schooled, and evangelical on a farm in rural Ohio. Although my family’s church attendance was spotty—we didn’t really trust the church system—we were very Christian and the Bible was the last word in scien…

Christian Charity Meets Its Match: If You Missed “The Overnighters,” Here’s Why You Should See It Now

By Beatrice Marovich

…and far more intimate than any of the other documentaries I’ve watched or news stories I’ve read. The film has also left me far more haunted by questions about what’s really happening for people who are living in the wake of this social and environmental transformation—and what will happen in the coming years. Without spoiling the very end, for those of you who do intend to see it, I will just say it seems that Reinke himself is ultimately visite…

Elie Wiesel Distorts Bible in Controversial “Child Sacrifice” Ad

By Seth Sanders

…andra was childless, so he went to the sacred Ganges river and prayed to Varuna to give him a child. Varuna agreed, but demanded that the boy must then be offered to him as a sacrifice. Harishchandra managed to put Varuna off until the boy turned 16, after which the boy went off on his own and saved himself by finding a poor Brahmin willing to accept a thousand cows for his own son as a sacrifice. When the king realized he had to sacrifice the Bra…

Free Arabs: Satire, Disobedience, and Disclaimers

By Nabil Echchaibi

…under says, The most relevant, if not the only relevant debate in the Arab world is the debate between secularism and Islamism. It is the one relevant societal line in the Arab world right now… Millions of Arabs are trapped between the reality of their life, the appearances they are supposed to maintain, and the political system meant to enforce those appearances, which is split between plutocracy and theocracy. Yes, this debate should be welcome,…

Beinart’s Indictment And The Evangelical Right

By Sarah Posner

…an Jews today, there are a great many Zionists, especially in the Orthodox world, people deeply devoted to the State of Israel. And there are a great many liberals, especially in the secular Jewish world, people deeply devoted to human rights for all people, Palestinians included. But the two groups are increasingly distinct. Particularly in the younger generations, fewer and fewer American Jewish liberals are Zionists; fewer and fewer American Je…

Strangest Hot Take of the Day: Why Evangelicals Like Trump

By Sarah Posner

…ls on this issue.” But, Brody laments, “we find out later that the guy who orchestrated the whole thing, campaign manager Ken Mehlman was a homosexual who really didn’t believe in the whole effort but it sure was good for political business.” To seal the deal, Brody has some breaking news: Trump is for a 20-week abortion ban. He’s for defunding Planned Parenthood. Sure, he used to be pro-choice, but he changed his mind on that in 2011—when he was…

Diplomatic Suckerhood: Why Israel Is Fighting Toward its Own Demise

By Ira Chernus

…n nuclear bomb (even just one, against Israel’s two hundred or more) makes headlines in Israel nearly every day, like this one from the Jerusalem Post: “Iran Could Build Bomb Within a Year”; even though, as the article clearly states, the Israeli government “currently believes that worst-case scenario is not likely to materialize.” Israel’s Defense Minister Ehud Barak betrayed the same sense of anxiety about weakness when he complained to the New…

Predicting the Future of Religion: A Thought Experiment

By Ed Simon

…tephen Prothero has pointed out that the traditional African religion of Yoruba is one of the world’s largest faiths and in his brilliant new book One Nation under Gods Peter Manseau has shown how the crucial role African religion played in the development of American religious syncretism. How will increased interaction with these religions enrich our global sense of faith? And what of Asia? Will our future historian chart the ways that Hindu nati…