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A Third Reconstruction? Rev. William Barber Lifts the Trumpet

By Peter Laarman

…ars being spent to buy candidates’ souls. Of course, secret pools of money buying Southern elections is a problem. SCOTUS’ Citizens United decision changed the rules of the game, making it easier for big money to play partisan politics. As John Nichols has said in his book, we are more and more a “dollarocracy.” But we remind our progressive friends who are not up on their Southern history: Poor and jobless people of all races have never had money…

Eat, Pray, Trash: What the Critics Don’t See

By Ben Brazil

…st (or at least strongly suggest) that some paths are wrong. Money doesn’t buy happiness, after all, but some routes to happiness are only accessible to the rich. Our culture is materialist and consumerist, but we can’t draw insights from other cultures without typecasting them. We’re aware that the concept of authenticity is a cultural construction, yet most of us can’t quite escape its power—or refrain from condemning those who seem to. But with…

India’s Elections and the “Doniger Affair”

By Murali Balaji

…al to Marxism. Hinduism and the Indian state became one and the same for a number of academics, and, borrowing from missionary (and liberal secular) beliefs about Indian social practices and religion, they helped to advance several prominent—but false—ideas in the West: that the caste system was inherently and uniquely Hindu, that women in Hinduism are subordinate to men, and that Hinduism promoted social inequality and injustice. In the absence o…

Killing For Religion, Not God

By Haroon Moghul

…ophobia to be real. Bosnia only happened fifteen years ago; I wish I could buy my interlocutors a ticket to Sarajevo, and answer them only after their visit. We should not forget that Europe’s violent spasms ended but very recently, and with the death of those generations who intimately recall Nazism and the Holocaust, Soviet Communism and the Gulag, it is possible the temptation to return to ugly ideologies will only increase. Recently, the Bosto…

Ihram: Dressing for the King

By Amina Wadud

…force an opening to get her back to surface. Don’t want to do that. I did buy a white zippered sweat shirt at the K-mart the other day because some of those overnights, early mornings in the desert can be cold, and I’d rather be hot than not. But, I’m excited to get to this point in my personal preparations. Actually the whole thing has been paid in full, the ticket has been purchased with the itinerary sent to me and now I am waiting for the vis…

Fragments of Secular Sanctity

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ow were they found? Who put them up for auction, and why? Why would anyone buy them? And how do we know them to be Galileo’s? Unlike the situation with Copernicus’ remains, there does not seem to be enough material in these poor relics to perform a DNA analysis. Yet the museum’s director, Paolo Galluzzi, has faith; he insists that “all the story is so convincing I cannot think of a reason not to believe it.” The director might be encouraged to thi…

Don’t Tread on our Gas Stoves: The Latest Right-Wing Cause May Be Silly But the Strategy is the Point

By Annika Brockschmidt

…sks of gas stoves, a discussion followed about how incentivizing people to buy electric stoves instead of gas stoves would benefit both the consumer’s health and the environment. The commission itself has since published a statement that makes it clear that they do not intend to ban gas stoves altogether. And while there’s been some criticism regarding the study cited by the commission, scientists largely agree on certain health and climate risks…

Capricology: Divine Madness

By Salman Hameed

…cheating and whether it is appropriate for a character to pay real cash to buy a ready-made avatar which can function at higher levels than they have earned through game play. Or for that matter, the debates about using power surge formulas in any kind of digital games to give the avatar actual lives or otherwise excempt them from the rules of the game play. There’s good stuff about these issues in Mia Consalvo’s book, Cheating: Gaining Advantages…

Blame Series Bonus: How Federal Policy Created America’s Fergusons

By Andrew Aghapour

…ers were not usable in most places; they were usable in Ferguson. So large numbers of African Americans who were displaced by urban renewal, by slum clearance in the central city, moved outside the central city, north and west, into places like Ferguson. Since African Americans were prohibited from living in most other places, those communities became predominantly or nearly all black. So that’s how Ferguson became the Ferguson we know today. Why…

Immortal Illusions: Should We Stop Trying to Live Forever?

By Beatrice Marovich

…elancholy that accompanies change. I’m sickened by the fact that money can buy a longer life; that those with purchasing power live more like the gods (a dystopic future depicted, coincidentally, in the recent blockbuster In Time, where life extension can be bought and sold—and stolen). But I don’t necessarily agree with Cave that the best option we have is to dismiss all immortal hopes entirely. All immortality narratives, as Cave puts it, are “…