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Will bin Laden’s Death Finally Quell Obama Conspiracy Theories?

By Anthea Butler

…ing short of the n-word, will be suspended as they try to figure out their latest spin on this blockbuster story. My guess is that they will credit the troop effort, and ignore that this was a decision on the part of the commander in chief to make the hard decision to go forward and commit troops to the operation. The crowds singing patriotic songs in front of the White House, Ground Zero and other sites are a spectacle, celebration, and cipher to…

Is Terry Jones the Death Rattle of the White Male Protestant?

By Gary Laderman

…dol” contestants, or breakout stars from “The Real Housewives of…,” or the latest YouTube sensation. The hundreds of articles and blogs lined up on Google News will likely grow in the week ahead, thanks in part to events that have begun to unfold in Dearborn—including Jones almost shooting himself in the foot in the parking lot of a local TV station, and his outraged response to a court order prohibiting his planned protest. It will get ugly, no d…

Possible Heir to Dalai Lama Cleared of Corruption Charges

By Tsering Namgyal

…ever, given the prospective role—which actually now looks more and more like an obligation—that this Karmapa could play going forward, this latest incident may have served a significant purpose….

Arcade Fire and the Suburban Soul

By Paul Harvey

…paranoia of the last decade—wars, attacks, economic crashes, myriad color-coded fears—run through Arcade Fire’s three full-length records: Funeral, Neon Bible, and The Suburbs. The newest effort induces a tour of previous decades, when suburbia seemed (but only seemed) to offer placidity and refuge from the wilderness downtown. In reality, of course, that placidity hid a multitude of dreams and terrors, both public and private, uncontainable with…

Secret Sequel: New Age “Mind Cure” Misses the Point

By Mark Vernon

…ical. And she was a convert. She has bought—and bought into—Rhonda Byrne’s latest smash hit, The Power. This book is the follow-up to The Secret, a small, glossy tome that has sold by the wagon-load all over the world. It’s been translated into 46 languages. In The Secret, Byrne ‘revealed’ the law of attraction. Now read The Power, she urges, and you’ll be, well, more empowered. I was tempted to mock. Surely the second book is just cashing in on t…

Plant Porn and Physics Prayers

By Meera Subramanian

…alist, performance artist, and mad scientist would all fit as well. In his latest work lies an invitation for not just cloistered specialists, but anyone and everyone, to participate. It used to be the exclusive domain of men of leisure to pursue God or science or art because they alone had the necessary combination of time and education, Keats argues, but now most people in the modern world have a modicum of both. Yet Keats, 39 years old, feels t…

The Obama Paradox: Civility vs. Capitulation?

By David True

…ax cuts has only heightened such appeals. One satirical headline read: “In Latest Compromise with GOP, Obama Agrees He is A Muslim.” Ironically, it is the Republicans who help us realize that while we may believe that civility is important, in politics, as in life, it must not be allowed to displace a party’s fidelity to its ideals. Integrity and fortitude are crucial if a party is to engage in principled compromises—rather than to simply be compr…

Can Shari’ah Be Imposed Through the ‘Homosexual Agenda’?

By Hussein Rashid

…n of this wedge issue divorces shari’ah from any semblance of reality. The latest entry in the category of Stupid Shari’ah Tricks is a minister in Oklahoma who accuses of Rep. Keith Ellison of imposing “sharee” by stealth because he supports equal rights for homosexuals. Now, one of the great talking points to get liberals to stop supporting Muslims is that shari’ah is opposed to homosexuality. This point is generally true. Most traditional religi…

Woe to You, Bryan Fischer

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…imagine that Bryan Fischer would drive the Hebrew prophets insane. In his latest column, the American Family Association’s director of issue analysis for government and public policy is incensed that Republicans would agree to a deal with President Obama to extend the Bush-era tax cuts. Why? Because extending unemployment benefits will add to the deficit: Conceding on this point is a sign that the GOP senatorial leadership still doesn’t get it. T…

2012 Film Heralds Progressive Utopia, No Effort Required

By Jessica Weisberg

…solar cataclysms, seems more plausible than the prophecy put forth by the latest entry in the rush to doomsday, 2012: Time for Change. Rather than mass destruction, it predicts that in two years, we will abandon our smart phones, SUVs, and prescription drugs in favor of hoes, tandem bicycles, and ayahuasca. At the end of the Mayan calendar, two years from now, the whole world will supposedly start to resemble Burning Man. Psychedelics, Prophecies…