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Kosher Nukes: Israeli PM Consults with Radical Rabbi on Iran Strike

By Shalom Goldman

…have an eager partner (with many followers) in Iran. And this partner, in true folie a deux fashion, is Iran’s president, who repeatedly provides powerful ‘proof’ of the Rabbi’s worldview. A week ago Iran’s President Ahmadinejad said that, “The existence of the Zionist regime is an insult to all humanity.” A couple of days later, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayotallah Khameni supported and confirmed that sentiment, dubbing the State of Israel “a cancerou…

Chocolate Will Make You Thin! Or: How Should We Trust Science?

By Michael Schulson

…certain scientific findings. They consider these findings to be bad or corrupted examples of actual science, which they like. In other words, while we may argue over what good science actually looks like, we all want the science on our side. And when we encounter scientific findings that we do like, we may trust them completely. Chocolate will help you lose weight! You can change people’s minds on gay marriage, just by talking to them! Altering y…

Chicken or Egg? Now We Know…

By Lauri Lebo

…So, it’s not all that groundbreaking, despite the breathless claims of the news stories. As a matter of fact, the evidence remains quite clear on this one. Chickens, as did all birds, evolved from dinosaurs. Dinosaurs laid eggs. Ergo, the egg came before the chicken. But why such defensiveness from folks like Myers? I mean, yes, it’s kind of a lame story. But it’s summer. It’s hot. And all that science stuff makes writers’ brains hurt. Once in a w…

A Moral Movement Where Everyone Is in For the Long Haul

By Maxine Phillips

…in a country where “socialist,” until Bernie Sanders’s campaign, was not a word taken seriously by the mainstream. Barber confronts the conundrum of the left in the United States—Is the key issue race or class?—and says that both have equal weight. He acknowledges Martin Luther King’s debt to socialist and communist advisers without naming King’s own democratic socialism. He treats sexism tangentially. Above all, he stays on message: We’re here fo…

Gambian Voters Reject Anti-Gay Strongman Jammeh; Activists Ponder Trump Impact on LGBT Human Rights; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…proclaimed that he invented an herbal cure for AIDS and once said he would rule for a billion years. Jammeh, who has ruled the country since he took over in a 1994 coup, surprised many by conceding to his opponent. Part of his statement said, “As a true Muslim who believes in the almighty Allah I will never question Allah’s decision. You Gambians have decided.” More from the Guardian: Inside, the first lady-elect, Fatou Bah, the first of Barrow’s…

Does Multiverse Theory Bring Theology Into Science?

By Andrew Aghapour

…trying to answer the metaphysical and mythological questions of where the world came from and how. Worlds Without End could be read as an underdog story. Is the multiverse finally having its day? The first serious multiple-worlds scenario to emerge in the modern scientific context was the Many Worlds Interpretation (MWI) of Quantum Mechanics, which Hugh Everett posited in the late 1950s. The next versions to come around were the “new” and “chaoti…

A Resurgence of “Ex-Gay Therapy” Under Trump/Pence? ABC News Report Offers a Platform to Hate Group Rep. Peter Sprigg

By Sunnivie Brydum

…ding the message being LGBT means we are defective, broken, and wrong. I struggled with substance abuse, struggled to support myself, and struggled to obtain an education. Kendall, who is now a second-year law student at the University of California Los Angeles, highlighted the deeply religious roots of conversion therapy, even when practiced by licensed therapists who, like Nicolosi, claim their personal faith does not influence their practice. “…

A Year After the Non-Apocalypse: Where Are They Now?

By Tom Bartlett

…one little to discourage the faithful. Miller had predicted the end of the world more than once. The end of the world hadn’t come. Shouldn’t that have been enough? Festinger wrote the following in his 1956 classic, When Prophecy Fails: “Although there is a limit beyond which belief will not withstand disconfirmation, it is clear that the introduction of contrary evidence can serve to increase the conviction and enthusiasm of a believer.” When the…

Why Belief in the Primacy of Language Leads to a Misunderstanding of Richard Dawkins, Islamophobia, and Politics

By Andrew Aghapour and Michael Schulson

…like global terror. After the Paris attacks, a chart kept popping up on my newsfeed. It showed a circle that represented the entire world Muslim population, and three tiny small circles that represented the relative size of these different extremist groups. Reading your book, though, it struck me that that graph—as attractive as it is to me—probably wouldn’t change a lot of people’s minds if they’re Islamophobic. I don’t want to say that the hiera…

Aasif Mandvi on Islamophobia, Acting, and the Long Shadow of Jon Stewart

By Haroon Moghul

…e diversity, in terms of who’s creating the stories, who’s starring in the stories, who the stories are about. You can have a lot of brown people, but if the story’s really about white people, then it’s diversity, but not the kind we need. It doesn’t matter, at the end of the day, that you have more brown people. Nobody’s not watching a show because there’s not enough brown people on it. You mentioned, in No Land’s Man, how you got the job on The…