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Why are Nuns and Monks in the Streets? (Parts I & II)

By José Cabezón

…be changing this. There is no question that a shift in Chinese government policy is necessary.* Given the failure of present policy, new strategies are called for. The Chinese administration, for example, should shift from the present top-down, hierarchical model of policy creation and implementation to a more local, representational and consensual model; from a reactionary model (that acts in response to crises that have already happened) to a p…

Policing Academic Freedom: A Book, a Controversy, and the Ominous Aftermath

By Michael Jerryson

…ar of Hindu traditions. A few months after The Hindus was published in the United States, it was favorably reviewed in the New York Times. The award-winning Indian essayist Pankaj Mishra praised the work as “staggeringly comprehensive,” and noted that “it is impossible not to admire a book that strides so intrepidly into a polemical arena almost as treacherous as Israel-Arab relations. The book was published the following year in India and was cr…

Religion and Other Animals

By Paul Waldau

…ncounter animals most frequently. At the same time, more households in the United States today have companion animals than have children. Polls consistently indicate that an astonishing number of people—in some cases more than ninety-nine percent—hold their dog or cat to be a “family member.” Communities of faith are among the institutions that are most responsive to the complex connections between humans and other animals. One increasingly finds…

Conservative Catholic Elites Oppose Trump… as He Rides Catholic Vote to Victory in Michigan

By Patricia Miller

…el give lip service to “wage stagnation,” it’s still wrapped up with their pet concerns of “grossly incompetent governance, profligate governmental spending [and] inept foreign policy.” That’s why, as Mark Silk notes, working class Catholics are flocking to Trump in states like Michigan, which he won handily yesterday. A pre-primary poll in that state found that Trump had the support of 52% of Catholic Republicans versus 42% overall. Ted Cruz’s br…

Mike Johnson’s Porn-Monitoring isn’t Just ‘Creepy’ — it’s a Window to the Fascist Desire Driving the White Evangelical Will to Power

By Jessica Johnson

…Bible should be the sole legitimate source for public policy and that the United States is a “biblical” republic. The entwinement of Johnson’s religious and political beliefs has been usefully examined and thoroughly dissected in a piece by Annika Brockschmidt here on RD, painting a clear picture of Johnson as a textbook White Christian nationalist—a true believer in the manifest destiny and divine providence of right-wing reactionary Christianit…

The Devil in Dover

By Lauri Lebo

…my parents the plaque honoring them. There was this belief that God had reunited the family, even though the youngest child was in her thirties. What are some of the biggest misconceptions about your topic? That one can’t believe in both God and evolution. I’ve run into quite a few people who think evolution is this either/or proposition. But there are many, many people, scientists included, who quite comfortably accept evolution, and also believ…

Well, the Harris-Trump Debate Happened — Now Enjoy Your Freedom and Choose Wisely

By Mary Rambaran-Olm

…, but also “doing the crime” now. Also, they have a recipe book for eating pet cats. I’m fairly certain Trump thinks asylum seekers are people who escape mental institutions and hightail it to the US to live the American dream. At least once Harris referred to Trump as the “former Vice President” which, if it wasn’t an attempt to emasculate him, is on brand for her own misspeaking that her base likes to ignore. Marxists around the world were surpr…

A Tale of Two Abortion Narratives: Dems Overreaching on Abortion?

By Daniel Schultz

…fice comprehensive health reform for incredibly incremental gains on their pet issue?” This may not be a story about the administration at all, in other words, but one about the foolhardiness of some activists throwing a temper tantrum to get their way on an unpopular issue. This poses something of a problem for journalists like Gilgoff. The problem with listening only to the insider voices is that you have to trust the storylines they build for y…

Same-Sex Marriage: Good for Marriage, Good for the Pocketbook

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…force of at least one country’s laws behind them. We hope that one day the United States will grant recognition to same-gender marriages performed in other countries, just as they recognize all other foreign marriages. If you believe those who oppose marriage equality for me and my partner, it’s apt that our marriage took place in a horror film setting. We’re apparently to blame for the decrepit state of marriage in the United States today, and gi…

Anti-Gay Activism Falling Victim to Capitalism?

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…sed over the years to fight against the rights of gays and lesbians. Their pet project is “True Tolerance” which advocates for the rights of bullies in schools. Okay, that’s not exactly a fair characterization. They are against bullying in schools, but they believe that bullies don’t need to be taught that gay and lesbian kids are just human beings like the rest of us. They believe a general anti-bullying policy will do when research has repeatedl…