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Never Mind the Libertarians, Here’s the ‘Pragmatist Moment’

By Eric C. Miller

…. Gen-Xers will perhaps appreciate the reference points. But it’s tough to buy Kennedy, now a libertarian and Republican, as a herald of the political future. Even if you haven’t read Jonathan Chait’s devastating critique of the Draper thesis, the Kennedy problem provides a clue to its content. The proposed Libertarian Moment is packaged up with generational confusion, leaving observers unsure of who, exactly, should be carrying the banner. Ed Kil…

Rage Against the New Age Machine: Three Days at the Osho International Meditation Resort

By Diane Winston

…an AIDS test, and rustle up cash. I couldn’t set my own schedule. I had to buy special clothes, eat at mandated times and attend an orientation. Rather than the dream of a peaceful retreat I’d cherished for months, this was New Age fascism. While other guests enjoyed the dissonances – a search for self set against a late-night bar scene, costly multiversity classes, and nightly videos of Osho’s rambling, racist and misogynist lectures, I felt like…

Christian Morality vs. Free Markets: The Constants of a Conservative

By Eric C. Miller

…e, seems to cast traditionalist commitment in libertarian language. Do you buy that interpretation? That’s an astute point. “Religious liberty” is a perfect example of fusionist rhetoric and fusionist ideology. After Reagan succeeded so dramatically with a fusionist “God and markets” message, there have only been a few non-fusionist conservatives to gain much national traction. Pat Buchanan’s 90s-era culture warriors are one example; although, by…

What Happens When There’s Nothing Left to Say About Marriage

By Sarah Posner

…d be invalidating. So it’s not only an old idea, it’s a stupid idea. The reality is that there will be nothing to be done, legally speaking, if the Court rules in favor of marriage equality. Same-sex couples will buy jewelry, open checking accounts, go to church, and get married, and no one, not Franklin Graham and not Scott Walker, can think of a single thing to stop it. Which is, of course, as it should be….

Trendwatch: Thieves Taking the Christ out of Christmas. Literally.

By Daniel Silliman

…the real reason for the Christmas season.” While no one tracks the actual number of baby Jesus thefts every Christmas season, in 2013 nativity robbery and vandalism was reported from California to Minnesota to New Jersey to New York, where the theft was investigated as a possible hate crime. One Boston crèche has been robbed three times in nine years, according to the Boston Globe. A New York security company garnered a bit of publicity by offeri…

Why Was Suspicion Over “The Boy Who Came Back from Heaven” Ignored for Years?

By Rachel Wagner

…t and hold the Bible as enough.” Todd Burpo and Kevin Malarkey, on the other hand, would have us allow new otherworldly visions to guide us—and would have us buy their heavenly storytelling as a means of expressing our extra-biblical convictions. …

What Do Christians Think About the Netanyahu Speech?

By Sarah Posner

…ten, the media ignores the views of liberal Christians, opting instead to “buy the idea that the only ‘authentic’ Christians (or ‘Christian music,’ or ‘Christian films’) are conservative.” That blindness to the liberal wing marginalizes, Kilgore argues, millions of mainline Protestants and the majority of Catholics who, for example, oppose the church’s position on marriage equality. A similar divide is brewing between Christian groups over the pro…

Appeals Court Eviscerates Notre Dame’s Objections to Contraception Accommodation

By Patricia Miller

…o which Notre Dame women should send the bills for the contraceptives they buy? Alternatively, must every woman who wants reimbursement of contraceptive costs pick a health insurance company, maybe on the basis of a Google search, to contract with? As for Notre Dame’s fifth proposed solution, that it and other Catholic nonprofits be allowed to comply with the mandate by providing coverage for Natural Family Planning training and materials, Posner…

Ask the Dust: Unbelievers, Bunker-Dwellers, Anti-Natalists

By The Editors

…ou” before you commit to anything. It is also helpful when trying to avoid buying a timeshare. Write a note now reminding yourself about what a cult looks like. The Dust recommends a top ten list of “I’m probably in a cult because… I feel compelled to buy all new clothes, books, décor, access to life-altering knowledge with money I don’t have or shouldn’t be spending The things I used to enjoy and find fulfilling are all off limits and used by the…

Céad Mile Fáilte: Open Hearts, Shifting Power Paradigms, and the Irish Same-Sex Referendum

By Gareth Higgins

…in ourselves, a voice for the voiceless, and a healer herself. So I don’t buy the notion that the recent same-sex marriage referendum, won with 62 percent of the electorate affirming the right of any two adults to form such a partnership, signals that only now have the Irish people suddenly become open-minded and progressive. Many Irish people always had open hearts. What has changed is that the public power structures have shifted. Over the last…