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Stop Debunking Climate Change Deniers

By Michael Schulson

…ul, it helps to read Judith Shulevitz’s recent, excellent piece at the New Republic, “This Is How You Should Talk to a Climate-Change Denier.” Shulevitz, drawing on the work of psychologist Daniel Kahneman, makes the seemingly obvious point that human decision making and risk assessment aren’t especially rational. Simply put: scientific facts do not, as a rule, sway science denialists. That’s the whole problem, right? Shulevitz goes on to point ou…

Turkish ‘Lord of the Rings’ Has God, Guts, Girls, and Glory

By Haroon Moghul

…history, with all the delicate contortions required for a secular Turkish Republic to make on behalf of a pluralist, Islamically-oriented but far more demographically diverse predecessor state. It’s also cool to see giant cannons and billowing flags and, in a surreal moment, that stereotypical Muslim call to prayer in the background—not during a battle scene, mind you, but while a talented young woman cuts her hair to mask her gender, to take her…

Is Stephen Pinker’s Controversial Polemic in Defense of Scientism As Bad As They Say?

By Michael Schulson

…ligent-design advocates all agree: Steven Pinker’s recent essay in the New Republic is trash. “Unbelievable hubris,” writes biologist PZ Meyers of the essay, titled “Science Is Not Your Enemy: An impassioned plea to neglected novelists, embattled professors, and tenure-less historians.” “Empirically overconfident” and “intellectually unsubtle” fumes Ross Douthat. “Steven Pinker may have just pissed you off,” notes NPR, unnecessarily. Pinker’s essa…

Why Egypt is America’s Enemy

By Haroon Moghul

…ng dictators of a largely secular cast; Tunisia and Egypt were not Islamic Republics, Yemen was a mess to begin with but not particularly ideologically Islamic—although religiously conservative—and Syria was dominated by a secular Ba’ath party. Yet, as I wrote, the New York Times, America’s leading newspaper, irresponsibly confused religiosity with a lack of receptivity to democracy. (Then again, if you’re the majority, of course you’d support dem…

Progressive Evangelical Attacks AARP, Social Security

By Peter Laarman

…as Devouring Beasts that must be cut down to size in order for this great republic of ours to sail on in untroubled seas: This inter-generational issue is incredible nonsense. And the idea that anyone would support cutting these programs out of a desire to help the young is close to obscene. Among other things, the greatest cuts will almost certainly hit the young. So Ron Sider has told America’s youth that he wants to make them less secure in re…

The 50 Shades of Evangelicalism

By Jonathan D. Fitzgerald

…mbiguity Back in March and again in April, Timothy Noah writing in the New Republic, observed how the mainstream media, and particularly the New York Times, misuse the word “Christian,” using it as a synonym for “Christian Right” or “Christian conservative.” Seventy-eight percent of the American population, he points out, identify as Christians, though far fewer fit into those sub-categories. Roughly one-third of that 78% call themselves evangelic…

Personhood Leaders’ Smear Campaign Debunked

By Lara Riscol

…The conservative media machine, from Live Action News, to Newsbusters, to Free Republic, ran with Mason’s story of being attacked by violent pro-choice advocates, pushing the narrative that violent assaults against pro-life Americans are on the rise. The Daily Beast reacted on the day of the press release by publishing its third story on the Masons in the space of a week, complete with the same home vandalism photos the anti-abortion outlets were…

Muslim Stowaways
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Titanic: “Eurabian” Alarmism 2.0

By Haroon Moghul

…blem.” In “Europe’s Other Crisis,” his most recent contribution to The New Republic, Caldwell presents what may seem at first like typical Eurabian alarmism: Islam and the West are incompatible. Europe with Muslims will cease being Europe. But there is more to it. As Caldwell puts it: “Europe is not rich enough… to withdraw from the world, but for the first time in half a millennium it is not strong enough to engage with the world either.” Maybe t…

Chris Caldwell Sees Muslim Bogeymen. Again.

By Bruce B. Lawrence

…ctive good. In “Europe’s Other Crisis,” his recent review-essay in The New Republic, there is no doubt which outlook or which set of books defines Christopher Caldwell. He sees Islam as the catalyst of evil, Muslims as the monsters of religious zealotry, and Western Europe as the victim of unwelcome, and too numerous, non-Christian immigrants. Caldwell’s outlook had already been defined by his most recent book, Reflections on the Revolution in Eur…

Another “Hot Text” For the War on Women: Rosemary’s Baby

By Mary Valle

…classic The Handmaid’s Tale, the U.S. has been replaced by the theocratic Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian state in which men control every aspect of women’s lives. Unsurprisingly it’s been the go-to text for critics of the ongoing “War on Women.” But I believe an earlier text offers even greater insight into a future in which the multi-pronged assault on women’s health care continues: Rosemary’s Baby—both Roman Polanski’s film and Ira Levin’s…