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As Florida Attempts to Make it Illegal, an Argument for the Sacred Work of White Discomfort

…econstruction, the civil rights movement and the contributions of women, African American and Hispanic people to our country.” So far so good. But here are the next two sentences: Examples of theories that distort historical events and are inconsistent with SBE-approved standards include the denial or minimization of the Holocaust, and the teaching of Critical Race Theory, meaning the theory that racism is not merely the product of prejudice, but…

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Savoring the Haterade: Why Jews Love Dara Horn’s ‘People Love Dead Jews’

…hem—but because the project itself speaks to a deep-seated problem of Jews today: the most successful way to convince someone to be a Jew is to tell them that everyone hates them, promoting a kind of Negative Judaism. Looking at the world through tear-streaked glasses I want to address this problem by making three points. The first is that Horn’s book is really part of a new genre one might call, “Anti-antisemitism literature.” These works mostly…

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Monstrous Futures: Dungeons & Dragons, Harbinger of the “None” Generation, Turns 40

…lity, but a dive into progressive dreams about what the world ought to be. Today’s media marketplace was constructed on a scaffold of adventures, role-played in the depths of the night, fueled by pizza, soda, and dreams. Today’s videogames are the highest grossing entertainment medium in the world, and they are the direct descendants of D&D. These digital worlds populated by monsters and magic were made possible by The Monster Manual. That volume,…

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Despite Conflation of Israel with Judaism, Anti-Zionism is More Kosher Than You Think

…context; people may want to apply them to later times but there is no historical basis to do so. God’s speeches granting the right to the land of Israel to the descendants of Abraham is no more or less historical than his revoking it—both are ancient literature applicable only to ancient realities. Maimonides, Mendelssohn, and Messianism You can’t have it both ways. If God’s condemnation of Israel is only relevant in its ancient historical context…

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Medieval Multitasking: Did We Ever Focus?

…ers of Augustine, Dante, Virgil, or the Bible would surely be able to give today’s digitally-distracted multitaskers a run for our money. The physical form of the bound book brought together all of these various “links” into one “platform” so that the diverse perspectives of a blended contemporary and historical community of thinkers could be more easily accessed. But the physical format of medieval books is not the only way in which they seem fam…

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What Can Ancient India Tell Us About Our World?

…lya struggled in sophisticated ways with the issues that bedevil our world today: What is the role of ethics in the economy and management of the state? To what extent can we practice non-violence in international relations? Is it possible to reconcile a realist approach to politics with ethical values? Ashoka and Kautilya also undertook practical measures which even today have something to teach us. Both advocated the establishment of extensive n…

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Who’s Smearing Obama?

…ither verifying Luttwak’s facts nor encouraging him to tone down his categorical language, writing that: “I interviewed five Islamic scholars, at five American universities, recommended by a variety of sources as experts in the field. All of them said that Luttwak’s interpretation of Islamic law was wrong.” This tactic having blown up in their faces—not unlike the “innocent” fad earlier this year among right-wingers of dropping Obama’s Arabic midd…

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Obama at Romero’s Tomb: The Politics of Liberation

…a. Gone I hope is the era of intervention and manipulation. The Central America of today is different from the one that saw Romero’s blood shed while saying mass. Some would argue that the crisis of gangs and drugs that is engulfing this region is leading to a crisis that will eclipse the civil wars of the 1980s and 1990s. And yet in spite of the growing violence, figures like Romero give us hope. As Romero prophetically stated, “I should tell you…

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Mister Rogers’ Radical Pacifist Neighborhood

…are for the killer whale Shamu, These children had seen the popular movie “Free Willy” and were saddened and disturbed by Mister Rogers’s apparent unwillingness to free Shamu from the confines of the Sea World tank. The letters are very touching in the care they express for a killer whale in need of the freedom afforded by a vast ocean. They are also moving in the sense that they are the product of Rogers’s own creation—his handwork in encouraging…

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Lies, Intimidation, and the Insurance Industry: The Republicans Have Lost Their Minds

…al views. How could he stoop so low as to be organizing what amounts to America’s Brownshirts today? I think I know what happened to him, Gingrich and the rest: They can’t compute that their white man-led conservative revolution is dead. They can’t reconcile their idea of themselves with the fact that white men like them don’t run the country any more — and never will again. To them the black president is leading a column of the “other” into their…

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