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6 Reservations About U.S. Intervention in Libya

By Haroon Moghul

…s he saw it, there was no time. Still more, making exceptions is a messy business. There are many court cases in which a defendant is clearly guilty, and yet we must throw out the case due to a violation of the rules of evidence. In individual instances, this creates injustices—we wish the judge could act with more discretion. But that discretion itself causes the greater danger; hence the wisdom of our political system. Because, in the aggregat…

The Vampire Who Beat Wells Fargo

By Joseph Laycock

…s received his $1000, plus legal fees. The media promoted his victory as a classic David and Goliath story and CNN dubbed Rodgers “a folk hero.” But there’s another element to the story: Rodgers openly identifies as a vampire. The media’s celebration of a vampire “folk hero” is an important historical moment for this emerging community and may be a curious statement about tolerance in a time when trust is in scarce supply. A music and events prom…

Hysterical Heretical Hollywood Humanism: The Theology of The Adjustment Bureau

By Jay Michaelson

…kinds of obstacles in his way—everything from traffic accidents to rigged business deals—and threaten Norris with death if he reveals their existence to anyone. One angel, nicknamed “The Hammer,” (played beautifully by Terence Stamp) warns that if he follows his heart, not only his dreams but Elise’s too will be ruined; he issues this warning in the form of an injury during her performance. So Norris faces a dilemma: Will he resign himself to fat…

Islamophobia by PowerPoint

By Julie Ingersoll

…in Islam or the Qur’an. Federer, who has a bachelor’s degree in accounting/business administration from Saint Louis University and an Honorary Doctorate of Humanities from American Christian College, also calls himself a “best-selling author,” though the books available for sale consisted exclusively of self-published materials (indeed Federer’s own company, Amerisearch, published What Every American Needs To Know About the Qur’an, the book on whi…

Why the King Hearings Should Matter to Mormons

By Joanna Brooks

…e state of Utah. Government leaders, politicians, Protestant churches, and business leaders petitioned Congress that Smoot was unfit to serve because of his affiliation with Mormonism and its outlaw practice of polygamy. What followed was a four-year show political show trial involving more than 100 witnesses that put every dimension of Mormon life under national scrutiny. But there are some important differences between the Smoot trials and the K…

Will the Religious Side with Workers?

By Peter Laarman

…ons, employers would merely chuckle and pay the fines (deducting them as a business expense, of course) in order to maintain union-free workplaces. These aggressive new moves, combined with the capacity to shut down unionized workplaces and ship the work to the non-union American South or to the Global South, took their predictable devastating toll on private-sector unionism. Surging public sector unionism during this same period saved the America…

Blasphemy and Betrayal: The Murder of Salman Taseer

By Anna Bigelow

…y belong to any religion or caste or creed—that has nothing to do with the business of the State.” Would that Jinnah had survived longer (he died in 1948) to secure that principle in Pakistani society. Instead, the now over sixty-year struggle to determine the relationship between Islam and the state in Pakistan has claimed another victim in Salman Taseer, governor of Pakistan’s Punjab province. A Public Murder The assassination of Taseer on Janua…

Welcome to the Shari’ah Conspiracy Theory Industry

By Sarah Posner

…’” “prescribes cruel and unusual punishments,” and “promotes a restrictive business environment that strangles the freedoms of capitalism.” ACT! (American Congress for Truth) launched the website Stop Shariah Now. Its founder, Brigitte Gabriel, has claimed that al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, and other terrorist organizations supported Obama for president because, she insisted, he is Muslim. Gabriel, a frequent guest on Fox News and at Christian Zioni…

Identifying With God: Jay-Z’s Power to Profit

By Ebony Utley

…of Russell Simmons but doing it bigger and deffer, Jay-Z is the consummate businessman. In fact, he’s a business, man. Jay-Z credits his success to his hustler mentality, but he doesn’t stop there… His Blueprint albums reference his power of creation—the divine ability to manifest something out of nothing as God did when he spoke the world into existence. He describes himself as hip hop’s savior on his return-from-retirement album Kingdom Come, wh…

Pence Amendment not Just About Abortion, but About Thwarting Contraception

By Sarah Posner

…—and elite support from “powerful international players in the Vatican, US business, and politic[s]” who encouraged Catholic, Mormon and evangelical leaders into partnership—UN conferences began to be transformed, from the normally subdued forum for conversation among NGOs to stages for right-wing theater where protesting monks would seat themselves in the formation of a cross, Mormon youth activists seized control of a youth caucus to deliver a r…