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HitchBot Meets His Maker: What a Robot’s Murder Tells Us About Ourselves

By Michael Schulson

…sad about hitchBOT? Is it just a cultural thing—a xenophobic fear of smartphone-wielding strangers, versus a comfort with cuddly robo-travelers? What tools do we have to navigate the line between a creepy robot-human interaction, and an adorable one? These questions aren’t strictly academic. From the Microsoft paperclip to Siri, millions of people interact daily with human-mimicking computer programs. Earlier this summer, Aldebaran, a French robo…

The Right is Using the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago Search to Martyr Trump and Maintain the Violent Myth of the Big Lie

By Bradley Onishi

…massive annual conservative activist conference, were given Bluetooth headphones, emblazoned with the word “silence,” where they were invited to listen to audio accounts from January 6 defendants who have been jailed in relation to the Capitol riot. According to Owen, the line to see the J6 Jail exhibit was hundreds of people long. While an actor played the role for the conference, on Friday the jailed man was an actual J6 rioter, Brandon Straka,…

Charged with Impiety: When Black Bodies Defy Tradition

By Yazmine Nichols

…rity opinion denied Thind’s claim, stating that: The children of ‘English, French, Italian, Scandinavian, and European parentage quickly merge into the mass of our population and lose the distinctive hallmarks of their origin…On the other hand…children born in this country of Hindu parents would retain indefinitely clear evidence of their ancestry. Thind was denied citizenship because he did not appear to be white. The case marked a seismic shift…

A Catholic’s Eulogy for the Harvard “Black Mass” Controversy

By Craig A. Ford Jr.

…lack mass to be reenacted was one that came from a late-nineteenth century French novel (the novel which, Frankfurter writes, was the literary basis for all other imaginations about the “black mass”), we should recognize what the black mass is actually a symbol of: Christian hysteria based in fear that ostracizes the Other from our midst—too often fatally. The reenactment of the “black mass” could have been educational for Christians, an opportuni…

Obama to Cave on Bush Tax Cuts: Letter to the Washingtonians, Chapter 1

By Daniel Schultz

…ould soon be at war. Traffic stopped, there were no planes in the sky, the phone didn’t ring. I supported the war to come, with only the reservation of who held the keys of command. Still, the enemies of the good must be punished, must be denied the safety of even a parched rocky hillside in a poor land. In 2002 and 2003, the grim infection of another war became more and more certain. I did not support this war. It was wrong, and I said so from my…

Keep Jews Interesting: It’s Time to Stop Being Defined by Anti-Semitism

By Shaul Magid

…y form of Jewish identity, to figure out why they should remain Jews. When French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre said “the anti-Semite defines the Jew,” he was not as wrong as we’d like to think. So, many American Jews who are going about their lives in a state of what one might call low anxiety—perhaps the best we can hope for—are suddenly awakened when some professor inadvertently and jokingly refers to a public figure, who happens to be a Jew, as…

The Quiet Part is Very Much Out Loud: Conservative Publication Calls For Embrace of Totalitarianism

By Annika Brockschmidt

…nservatives need to get comfortable saying in reply to people like [David] French that Drag Queen Story Hour should be outlawed; that parents who take their kids to drag shows should be arrested and charged with child abuse; that doctors who perform so-called ‘gender-affirming’ interventions should be thrown in prison and have their medical licenses revoked; and that teachers who expose their students to sexually explicit material should not just…

We May Be Sacrificing Our Children to the God of the Gun — But it’s Not That the God Requires the Deaths

By Stephanie Frank

…in our gut needs to be done? President Joe Biden, 24 May 2002 In 1898, the French sociologists Henri Hubert and Marcel Mauss published a watershed piece in the study of religion, “Essay on the nature and function of sacrifice.” In it they looked at a variety of ancient sources—most importantly the Vedas and the Hebrew Bible—to try to discern the basic mechanism of sacrifice. Their analysis importantly diverged from the then-dominant theory that sa…

Mexican Bishops Exorcism Against Equality; African Bishops Oppose ‘Enemy of Human Race’; Israeli Islamic Leader Anti-Gay Op-Ed

By Peter Montgomery

…, “When the Queer Cultural Festival opened on June 9, participants were outnumbered by protestors holding signs with slogans like ‘Stop Same-Sex Marriage’ and ‘Gays Out: Homosexuals have no human rights.’” Israel: Islamic leader stirs outrage with anti-gay op-ed; government rejects anti-discrimination law The deputy head of the Islamic Movement in Israel, Sheikh Kamal Khatib, “launched a scathing attack on homosexuality in an op-ed titled ‘You mak…

What Does the Catholic Church’s Patriarchal Structure Have to Do with the Failure of the Amazon Synod?

By Mary E. Hunt

…, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela, including French Guyana as an overseas territory).” [Section 1] Yet those countries taken together comprise one of the poorest regions on Earth and the ecosystem described is in meltdown. There are many reasons why the Catholic Church focused on the Amazon. Of global significance, the impact of losing the ecological richness and diversity of the Amazon region is incalculable accordin…