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The Revelation of Kurt Andersen: With ‘Evil Geniuses’ a Media Mandarin Discovers Plutocracy

By Peter Laarman

…ey had. I make no claim to having been ahead of my time, and I loved every minute of my experience with that spirited and serious-minded faith community. But I was reminded of my outlier status back then when I read Ginia Bellafante’s piquant “Big City” interview with Kurt Andersen in Sunday’s Times. Andersen’s bestselling new book, Evil Geniuses, amounts to an extended mea culpa for his own inability, and the inability of culture liberals like hi…

From Elon to Elizabeth: The 7 Seals of the 2022 Apocalypse

By Mary Rambaran-Olm

…e Star Wars ensemble of soon-to-be Star-Weres might be receiving a planned minute of silence when the SpaceX mission has an “anomaly” shortly after launch. By the time this anomaly occurs, Musk’s Tesla stock should be worth just enough to buy flowers for all the “influenaut” family members. The seventh seal has been quietly broken. Anyway, if you missed these signs, it may not be too late. From the moment you wake up, before you put on your makeup…

Muslims Helped Legitimize Lowes’ Decision to Pull Ads From All-American Muslim

By Hussein Rashid

…eview a screener and get my opinion. I shared my concern that this was too minute a slice of life, but they spoke about the limitations of the art form and had a discussion with me about expanding the vision. The company is co-founded by Reza Aslan, who has done a great deal of popular work in representing the American Muslim community well. The interaction I had with the folks from BoomGen is the model we should have. Communication and discussion…

Did the Duggars’ Fundamentalism Cause Sexual Abuse? Not So Fast

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…don’t know that we can say the last bit yet, for reasons I’ll explain in a minute. But meanwhile, let me risk stating the obvious and point out that there is plenty in Quiverfull Christianity just crying out for scrutiny and critique, including how it is able to handle sexual abuse. A repressive Christian subculture predictably will—and evidently did, in this case—enable abuse, making it harder for abuse to come to light and be dealt with appropri…

Getting Back into Blogging

By Amina Wadud

…ated to the hajj and something I thought about on this trip. I made a last-minute effort to at least buy presents for my grandsons, who already have a quite a collection of T-shirts from various places, if not from the airports on the way out of those places. It’s one of those “thought that counts” kind of things: a way of sharing something from my time away with them. In the dream, one of the members of my tour group lands in the holy city with a…

Tea Partiers Fall Back on Religion to Deny Reality of Climate Change

By Lauri Lebo

…d turn to religion. Again, I noticed the same thing at the 9/12 rally. The minute they are pressed to explain themselves with facts, they fall back on faith: Lisa Deaton, a small-business owner in Columbus, Ind., who started We the People Indiana, a Tea Party affiliate, is supporting Mr. Young in part because of his stand against climate change legislation. “They’re trying to use global warming against the people,” Ms. Deaton said. “It takes away…

The Fear is Real: A New View of Halloween “Hell Houses”

By Lucia Hulsether

…geantry, which brings participants—a total of 25,000 every October—on a 90-minute walk through the South Georgia woods. We observed intensely violent renditions of standard end-times scenarios: the rapture of believers; an ensuing period of torture and tribulation for the faithless “left behind”; a climactic battle between Jesus and Satan; and a final judgment in which Jesus orders a teenage church-girl to be dragged by demons into hell for “knowi…

The Angel of Death and Pam Tebow

By Sarah Posner

…types of birth control) on the ballot in Colorado, has cut a shocking two-minute video in which President Obama morphs from himself to the Joker to the Angel of Death (via Kyle at Right Wing Watch). Remember when we were told that there was a new movement afoot, a softer, gentler kind of anti-choice activism exemplified by the Tim Tebow Super Bowl ad? Pam Tebow has endorsed Personhood Colorado and Amendment 62. So much for that. The video is call…

Little ‘Value’ in New Harris Book

By Michael Ruse

…ything, and science can tell us whether we have it or not. Well, hang on a minute. Before we go off and celebrate in the bar that two-and-a-half thousand years of moral philosophizing can now be brought to an end, let’s ask a few questions—the sorts of questions that one might ask of a first-year undergraduate who comes up with an answer like this. First, what does “well-being” even mean? Notoriously, Jeremy Bentham argued that the old English chi…

Is it Fair to Question Rand Paul’s Religiosity?

By Sarah Posner

…ristianity.” (I actually think Chait’s wrong about that; more on that in a minute.) He goes on, “The trouble with Conway’s ad is that it comes perilously close to saying that non-belief in Christianity is a disqualification for public office. That’s a pretty sickening premise for a Democratic campaign.” I didn’t see Conway’s ad that way; I thought it questioned whether Paul had demonstrated disrespect for religion, as opposed to demanding that Pau…