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Reformation England Looms Over Contraception Debate

By Sarah Posner

…emingly founded in a reductive secularism that has more in common with the French Revolution than with America’s founding.”) The very idea that providing women with insurance coverage is somehow tantamount to the terror and violence inflicted on both sides in Reformation England—or to the historical cataclysm that was Henry’s schism from Rome—is so absurd I’m stunned as my fingers tap across my keyboard. If we’re going to spend the next five and h…

RDBook: Bernard Avishai’s The Hebrew Republic

By Mitchell Plitnick

…East, modeled on the EU. A Middle Eastern EU has been proposed before: the French suggested something similar when they proposed a Mediterranean Union. However, all this thinking is premature. Avishai glosses over the fact that the EU itself did not spring into being overnight: Europe underwent two deeply traumatic world wars before the formation of the European Community after WWII. Regional conflict was a major obstacle to integration in Europe,…

Catholic Bishops Meeting For Family Synod; South Africa’s Dutch Reformed Church OKs Gay Weddings, Ordination; Court in Malaysia Deals Setback To Transgender Advocates; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ng media, challenging the laws through legal cases. Nancy Nicol writes: “A number of themes can be identified throughout this body of work that speak to profound discrimination and violence: random violence in public places; police harassment, extortion, custodial rape; ‘corrective rape’ against lesbians ‘to make them straight’; exclusion and violence perpetuated by friends, family and community; Church fueled hate; state fueled hate; employment d…

Are We Living Through World War III?

By Haroon Moghul

…o the White House, Britain out of the European Union, Marine Le Pen to the French presidency, and the world into a downward spiral of escalating violence.” Omar Mateen, Cohen argues, is the 21st century’s Gavrilo Princip. The man who ends one age and starts another. But the bumbling, stumbling Princip, whose ridiculous assassination attempt succeeded against all odds, seems an odd comparison to Mateen; for one, while Mateen did declare allegiance…

There is No Religious Freedom: A Lesson from a ‘Pastafarian’ Stunt

By Austin Dacey

…suffer the consequences of being deemed inauthentic by decree. During the French debate on the veil, President Sarkozy declared, “The burqa is not a religious sign,” suggesting that women had no religious right to don it. If the ideal of religious freedom means anything, surely it should prevent the magistrate from pronouncing on what constitutes the legitimate practice of a faith and what does not. An Equality-Based Solution? A legal regime of r…

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Genocide Rhetoric Creates a Permission Structure for the Right — But Permission to do What?

By Annika Brockschmidt

…nspeakable atrocities. The term was first introduced in a paper written by French psychologist Roger Mucchielli in 1970, as a method by those planning to commit genocide to build a basis of justification against their enemy. In a cruel twist of fate, after the Rwandan genocide, scholars found a memo, in which a Hutu propagandist cited Mucchielli’s work—in which he had warned against such rhetorical tactics—and used it as a tool to prep Hutus for t…

Obama and the Unbelievers: The Future of Secularism

By Bruce Ledewitz

…thinking resistance to terms like God may wane. A recent book by the noted French atheist Andre Comte-Sponville illustrates this tendency. The book is entitled The Little Book of Atheist Spirituality. In it, Sponville rejects the notion of God, but willingly embraces terms such as “the Absolute” and “Spirit”. In fact Sponville’s description of the human condition is one with which C.S. Lewis would readily concur: “we are finite beings who open int…

It’s Not Just About Ground Zero

By Mark S. Byrnes

…property.” One of its exercises is a recreation of a 1746 incident when a French fleet threatened Boston. A teacher playing Thomas Prince leads the students in prayer and “call[s] upon God to bring a storm and wipe out the ships,” whereupon their prayers are answered, showing God’s special protection of America. The lesson then connects the site of Prince’s prayer, the Old South Church, to Samuel Adams and thus to the American Revolution. It trum…

Free Arabs: Satire, Disobedience, and Disclaimers

By Nabil Echchaibi

…rmer director and publisher of two trailblazing news magazines (Telquel in French and Nichane in Arabic) known for their defiant reporting on politics, culture, and the arts. Benchemsi is the veteran of numerous altercations with Moroccan authorities over his writings on police torture, secret services, the King’s salary, drug cartels, and hot-button issues on religion and Islamist parties. He has been frequently prosecuted and fined—and the newsr…

Hate, An American Voter Value

By Gary Laderman

…ties that are supposed to bind us all together. Hate the English, hate the French, hate the Spanish, hate the Japanese, hate the Germans, hate the Koreans, hate the Vietnamese, hate the Russians, hate the Iraqis, and so on for the so-called “foreign” enemies to fear. On the domestic side, the list comes too easily: hate Indians, hate blacks, hate Jews, hate anarchists, hate war protestors, hate government, hate the North, hate the South, hate the…