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Beck: Muslim Brotherhood Is Like ACORN

By Sarah Posner

…because they provide food to people. And we’d never want a charity to give anyone food! “Please,” he concluded, “if you want to save the Republic, please, food storage.” Listen here: …

4 Reasons Why Egypt’s Revolution Is Not Islamic

By Haroon Moghul

…atible. On the other hand, Egypt is a proudly Arab society (hint: the Arab Republic of Egypt) which has never seen Islam as incompatible with their specific ethnic and national project. Arabness and Islam are hard to pull apart, such that the late Michel Aflaq, the founder of the Arab nationalist Ba’ath Party—he was a Christian—praised Islam as an achievement of the Arab cultural genius. (Many Muslims wouldn’t take too kindly to such a reading, bu…

Tim Pawlenty, Bad Fundamentalist

By Michael J. Altman

…hat Pawlenty misses. He’s a bad Fundamentalist. Even if, like Fundamentalists, we only apply common sense philosophy to the Founders and their documents, our answers about how they saw God functioning in the new republic would be as complex as any Fundamentalist interpretation of the Book of Daniel. Fundamentalists valued precision and complexity. Pawlenty only gives vague notions of a “founding under God.”…

Mao, Meet Confucius: China’s Religious Revolution

By Kwok Pui-lan

…Several months before the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 2009, Liu Peng argued that spiritual vacuum is the weakest link of China’s meteoric rise. A senior research fellow at the Institute of American Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Liu says religion can provide civic and moral education to ease rampant social problems and spiritual dis-ease. He urges the government to adopt more liberal policies…

Mike Lee’s Father: Constitution Not Scripture

By Joanna Brooks

…n as tantamount to scripture is difficult to square with the fact that our republic has functioned very well, probably even better, after at least one of its original provisions (requiring United States senators to be elected by their respective state legislatures rather than by the people at large) was amended out of existence by the Seventeenth Amendment.” “Can someone send Mike Lee this excerpt from his father’s talk,” our Arizona reader plaint…

“Can You Tell Me Who The Villains Are?”: Rock and Religion, Irish-Style

By Lisa Bitel

…se unquestioning believers who inhabit the villages and farms of the Irish Republic and Christendom more generally. From shenanigans at church, they went on to write a hit song about Galway’s famously liberal bishop, Eamonn Casey, a man who had witnessed Oscar Romero’s assassination, criticized US policy in Latin America, and led the charge to block Ronald Reagan’s visit to Ireland. Casey was also a stern advocate of priestly celibacy who frowned…

Bringing the Senate Back to Decency: An Election Day Morning After

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…d of current political speech, and the difficult terrain lying before this Republic in the next two years, it is Adams’ final line to which I keep returning. It offers a conclusion that brings me some chastened hope today: The most troublesome task of a reform President was that of bringing the Senate back to decency. This is the lesson I hope our current president can bring himself to learn after this midterm election. Not more coddling of old an…

Rand Paul Is Not Anti-Authority

By Sarah Posner

…e story of Rand Paul’s college hijinks in GQ, took to the pages of The New Republic (where Jonathan Chait started the handwringing in the first place) to denounce the ad as the “most despicable of the year.” If that’s the case, then Zengerle’s own reporting falls into the same category. In his TNR blog post, he complains that “no candidate over the age of, say, 30 should be held politically accountable for anything he or she did in college—short o…

Art for Peace: An Interview with Artist Mary Button

By John Shorb

…from a number of different countries—Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Kenya—they also came from a wide variety of faith backgrounds. One of the things that I became very quickly aware of was how unsure and self-conscious I was about talking about my own faith. I was totally blown away by the openness and ease with which so many of these young people talked about what their faith meant to them. Bear in mind, now, tha…

Is Terry Jones the Death Rattle of the White Male Protestant?

By Gary Laderman

…e symbolic head of the body politic? And it is certainly the case that the Republican Party has been taken over by a predominantly white, religiously conservative, and aggressively nationalistic Tea Party hoping to snuff out any signs of political muscle by moderates. But rather than provide succor and reassurance for WMHCC, the Tea Party has its own agenda—willing to sell out their souls to big money, fixate on the national debt while the rest of…