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Christian Terrorism Comes to Milwaukee

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…ctivists—including the World Trade Center bomber Mahmud Abouhalima and the Iraq al Qaeda leader, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi—were attracted to the jihadi message not for reasons of personal piety, but because they were lured by the image of cosmic war. They saw themselves as religious warriors. Wade Michael Page also gloried in the idea of war. The poster for his band, End Apathy, portrays a dead skinhead, lying in the street with police cars in the back…

Newsweek Takes a Bullet On Gay Marriage

By Mary E. Hunt

…ty, would have accompanied a progressive religious treatment of the war in Iraq or the death penalty. So why same-sex marriage? Why the private sphere and not the public forum? One reason is that as Christianity has lost its hegemony in an increasingly religiously pluralistic society, Christian conservatives have staked their shrinking claims on changing personal ethics. First abortion, now same-sex marriage, and soon, end-of-life issues, are seen…

The Best Books Media of 2008

By Jeff Sharlet

…ddle years of the 20th century survived as the language of Kurdish Jews in Iraq. Setting off to his father’s homeland at the worst possible time, Sabar tells the story of Aramaic as well as the unique set of circumstances that brought his family to Los Angeles, where his father is now not only a scholar and preserver of the language of his raising, but occasionally shares his knowledge of Aramaic with Hollywood directors hungry to add a little lan…

Not His House: Archbishop Oversteps, Opposes Repeal of DADT

By Eugene McMullan

…critique of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, which fell (and still fall) significantly short of Catholic just war criteria (Catechism of the Catholic Church #2309). With respect to DADT, Broglio’s reading is selective. While he emphasizes a few passages dealing with homosexuality, the Catechism offers no less than ten pages on the eighth commandment, regarding truthfulness. DADT should be repealed because it enjoins LGBT service members to lie,…

Rep. Pelosi, Can I Tweet You Some Lewd Photos?

By Sarah Sentilles

…ver-ending parade of them for us to wag our fingers at—Clinton, Spitzer, Ensign, Pickering, Edwards, Sanford, Schwarzenegger, and now Weiner. I have no doubt there will be more to come (pun intended). We are quite willing to punish people for personal sins, especially when they are sexual in nature, but we seem unwilling to hold anyone accountable for structural, institutional sins, which are, it seems to me, the sins that matter in government—sin…

The Heresies of Christopher Hitchens

By Austin Dacey

…his growing alienation from the Left as a supporter of the US invasion of Iraq. He borrows a line from Rebecca West’s Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia, in which West’s guide and lover Constantine reflects on his political loyalties: “For the sake of my country, and perhaps a little for the sake of my soul, I have given up the deep peace of being in opposition.” Perhaps there is peace in opposition to power because one’s pe…

Irony Repeats Itself: Reconsidering Reinhold Niebuhr in the Trump Era

By Gary Dorrien

…1940 the Socialist Party opposed intervening in World War II, so Niebuhr resigned. Previously he had been consumed with one principle of justice, equality. Then he judged that a realistic struggle for justice had to give at least equal priority to order and freedom, which, for Niebuhr, required backing off from the struggle for economic equality. His major work of political philosophy, The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness, was publis…

A One-State Solution for Israel and Why It Will Work

By Haroon Moghul

…like, despite the fact that they are enemies, and that his support for the Iraq War helped to create the conditions in which and through which ISIS emerged. (Then he has the temerity to ask us to put our soldiers, civilians, and security at risk by pursuing another ill-advised conflict.) Netanyahu doesn’t just use anti-Arab and anti-Muslim sentiment to win votes, justify occupation, or call for war—the violent consequences of his Islamophobia—but…

Who is Religious Left?

By Frederick Clarkson

…Religious Left” as a counterweight to the Religious Right, one of the most significant social and political movements in American history. This official Religious Left, a handy auxiliary of elements within the Democratic Party is, of course, nothing like the kind of dynamic social movement that has, and may yet again, change history. A recently released manifesto titled “Come Let Us Reason Together: A Governing Agenda to End the Culture Wars,” spa…

History Channel’s “Vikings” Subverts and Supports the Violent Heathen Trope

By David Krueger

…ons. In August of 2014, thousands of Yezidis were murdered in northwestern Iraq by ISIL militants, who accused them of practicing Satan worship. Buddhist militants in Myanmar have justified the burning of mosques by portraying the Muslim Rohingya minority as particularly violent. Although it’s difficult to imagine the pagan Viking as a vulnerable minority, the characterization of them as the embodiment of rapacious savagery reveals much about the…