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Conservative Catholics Unhappy About New Book on LGBTs and The Church; and More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…owing bloc of traditionally left-leaning gay voters has embraced far-right French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen, leader of the once-fringe National Front party. “Faced with the current threats, particularly from radical Islam, gays have realized they’ll be the first victims of these barbarians, and only Marine is proposing radical solutions,” said Kelvin Hopper, 25, a gay artist who lives in a hipster district of Paris and plans to cast his…

Synod or Sin Oddly: Vatican Encourages Catholics to ‘Walk Together’ as Long as the Hierarchy Leads the Way and Decides the Route

By Mary E. Hunt

…Social Concerns where I was greeted by a recording. Twice I left my name, number, and email address but received no response. Finally, in reply to my later email, I was directed to three local parishes in my zip code to find out about attending their listening sessions. A priest from one of the three I contacted replied courteously but had to report that the parish has nothing in place yet. He assured me that they would do whatever the diocese in…

Struggling With the Legacy of Harold Bloom, Brilliant but Deeply Flawed Critic (1930-2019)

By Ed Simon

…Blooms’ “School of Resentment” were also in the stead of Derrida and other French theorists, but over his career the professor seemingly moved away from his earlier, innovative arguments in favor of his later writings which were obsessively focused on literary greatness, including how to identify it and how to categorize it. Such issues of canonicity, when they take the idea that rational, objective standards of greatness are possible (or even des…

Don’t Overlook Endless War in Rise of ISIS

By Haroon Moghul

…made Thomas Piketty that rarest kind of celebrity: the academic kind. The French economist’s hefty tome helped propel the issue of income inequality to the forefront of our political debates. It should come as no surprise that he writes, at Le Monde, that inequality helps to explain the rise of ISIS, too. It’s been called “the most controversial theory behind the rise of ISIS,” though it’s not a ridiculous one. That honor belongs to Marco Rubio,…

6 Reservations About U.S. Intervention in Libya

By Haroon Moghul

…get a bill far larger than you expected. (In that case, wars are like cell phones.) We have a right to know just how much can be spent on uncertain military objectives, and it would be nice to know whether that much money could be spent, without consulting Congress, on the betterment of the condition of the American people. The roads around my apartment need repair. Can we get NATO to send some army engineers in? New York City also desperately nee…

2011’s Best Books—
Or Just a Great Reading List

By Haroon Moghul

…rison industry that sees America incarcerate more people, both in absolute numbers and as a percentage of its population, than almost any other country in the world, including China. Chew on that for a few minutes. But for all his willingness to think outside the box, I found a truly disheartening passage in his conclusion. After spending pages describing the cruelty of our justice system, he makes the offhand point that at least what he is sugges…

Amid Uncertainty, Eight Things We Know for Sure About the Boston Bombings

By Ivan Strenski

…of minority Christian communities in Egypt or Syria today. Or, what of the French mandate that created the modern nation-state of Lebanon largely to protect its Christian population after the fall of the Ottoman Empire? Were the Russian Empire’s campaigns against the Ottomans into Georgia and Armenia similarly devoid of globalizing sympathies with fellow Christians? But, if we insist upon thinking that religion is only and always good, we will nev…

How Protesting Black Bodies are Imagined as a Threat to National Pride

By Joseph Winters

…celebration and collective self-worship. Drawing on the early 20th century French sociologist Emile Durkheim, Zeller argues that the flag is a powerful rallying point for collective ideals. It is a totem that occasions—and demands—the nation’s collective worship. As Zeller writes: “To threaten the totem, particularly in large groups (such as on national television) is to call into question the foundations of society.” Yet it’s not clear that Kaepe…

The Grand Old Homonationalist Party: The Issue that Keeps the Log Cabin Republicans, Republican

By Omar Sarwar

…do, the deadliest attack on LGBT people took place in New Orleans, where a French Quarter gay bar was set ablaze and 32 patrons lost their lives. Research by the FBI demonstrates that between 2005 and 2014 LGBT Americans surpassed American Jews as the most likely target of hate crimes in the country, not despite, but because of rising cultural acceptance of same-sex-loving persons. And according to the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs…

Mortal Combat: Risk in the Winter Olympics

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…red-clad lumberjacks and giant inflatable beavers.” One of the event’s big numbers, sung in French and English, was “Let’s Have a Party”—and the gods know these athletes have earned one. We all have. That the party commenced under a glorious full moon seemed fitting. I’ve reflected several times on this site about the ritual and religious meaning of the Modern Olympic Games; games Pierre de Coubertin insisted were intended to serve as a new kind o…