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Searching in Vain for a “Pure” Elie Wiesel

By Martin Kavka

…th leftist intellectuals who reject it. Perhaps another generation will be free enough to criticize Israel; I cannot. [Italics added.] Was this a betrayal of his other broadly humanist commitments? Absolutely. There is no reason why critics should not continue to take Wiesel to task for what he said about Palestinians, or why they should not point out how especially unprepared Wiesel was for the recent growth of Israeli racism. But if we have anyt…

Obama Inaugural Address Challenges Tea Party History

By Julie Ingersoll

…oint: Seneca, Selma, and Stonewall. Indeed, this narrative places women, African Americans, and LGBT Americans as well as immigrants, the poor, children, and others at the center of the unfinished story of the expansion of freedom to all. Articulated beautifully in the speech, the narrative was echoed in every aspect of the ceremony. One of candidate Obama’s strengths in the first campaign was his ability to invoke these powerful mythic themes (th…

Conservative Catholics Try to Domesticate Laudato Si

By Patricia Miller

…Catholicism, tries to reframe the encyclical as supporting the idea that a free market economy is the best way to be responsible stewards of the environment and serve the needs of the poor. Where Pope Francis talks lyrically about restoring balance with “brother sun, sister moon, brother river and mother earth” through a complete rethinking of how we use resources and prioritize market efficiencies, Sirico’s poetry is saved for the market economy…

We Can’t Have Religious Freedom Without Reproductive Freedom

By Frederick Clarkson and Cari Jackson

…eedom that made democracy possible are the root of what makes reproductive freedom possible today. The rollback of religious freedom that the sponsors of the Virginia Statute warned us about is well underway. We can see it in the recent and likely future decisions of the Supreme Court, the damage done by the Trump administration, and in the theocratic agenda of the Christian Right, a movement that continues to grow in political power. But their da…

Former AIPAC Spokesperson Rallies Conservatives to Attack CAP, Media Matters as Anti-Semitic

By Sarah Posner

…senberg, himself a former AIPAC staffer, and bloggers at the Center for American Progress, including Matt Duss, Eli Clifton, and Ali Gharib, as articulating views outside Democratic Party orthodoxy on Israel. Notably, Rosenberg was depicted as having free reign to express his views at Media Matters, but the CAP writers were portrayed as articulating a view not representing the policy positions of their employer. CAP subsequently published a blog p…

Beverly Cleary, Author of the Ramona Series, Understood Children, Shoes, School, Words, and How it Feels to be Heard, or Misunderstood

By Amy Laura Hall

…arted the third grade . . . Grown-ups did not understand that summers were free from grades.” She also catches grown-ups speaking earnest nonsense. Virginia Lee Burton’s 1939 classic Mike Mulligan and the Steam Shovel may be about, as her teacher tells her, “digging the basement of the town hall,” but Ramona knows that her pressing question, namely, “how did Mike Mulligan go to the bathroom when he was digging the basement of the town hall?” stand…

The Mistaken Assumption Behind Employers’ “Right” to Not Cover Contraception

By Mary Barker

…d, we can rely on John Locke, the “Father of Classical Liberalism” (ie. American Conservatism), or The Little Red Hen, or even just common sense. When labor is alienated from production, the compensation it receives for services rendered are “given” by the owners of the enterprise, with the implication that it “belongs” to them (the owners), and they are thus free to dispense of what is theirs as they see fit. And if it belongs to them, then it is…

Show Me the Way of the Hebrews: The Making of an African American Rabbi

By J. Lester Feder

…ment for The Washington Post, a cover story for the magazine about a new African American synagogue in DC started in 2008 by Mother Dailey’s grandson, Eli Aronoff. (Aronoff claims no Ashkenazi ancestry despite his surname—his father was from rural South Carolina.) Neither my story nor the new congregation succeeded—the Post axed the story during a shakeup of the magazine’s editorial staff in 2009, and Aronoff’s congregation recently decided to dis…

They’re Not Coming Back: The Religiously Unaffiliated and the Post-Religious Era

By Kaya Oakes

…. From 1998 to 2004, that percentage held steady at around 14 percent, but today, 25 percent of Americans “claim no formal religious identity.” This percentage continues to primarily consist of adults under the age of 50. The survey also makes it clear that this decline began among those who were young adults in the ’90s, and has only sped up today. That percentage means there are more Americans who are unaffiliated with religion than there are pr…

Sacred&Profane: On Sexual Diversity, Perversity, and Ecstasy

By Gary Laderman

…ndividual beyond the sensual pleasures of his or her body? Does sacred sex promote values in harmony with America’s highest principles of individual freedoms and the pursuit of happiness? After the 1960s, and to the present, public debate and awareness about the answers no longer depend solely on narrow, usually contradictory, Christian principles and doctrines. These days, answers come from Americans who publicly challenge limits on their pursuit…