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Modern Vampires: Your Neighbors and Spouses

By Joseph Laycock

…family, friends, and neighbors of vampires may find this book helpful. I increasingly encountered stories of people learning that their significant other was a vampire and spouses who were confused by their wife or husband’s “awakening.” One of my lectures on the vampire community was attended by a woman and her young son: Her son’s friend had announced that he was a vampire, and the mother wanted to know what this meant. This book is not intende…

Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife

By Lisa Miller

…appens”); to Albert Brooks, who wrote and directed Defending Your Life. I included references to Marc Chagall, The Simpsons, folk songs, slave spirituals, Monty Python, Michelangelo, Hamlet, Homer, popular jokes, my grandparents, Giotto, Billy Graham, Botticelli, Don Piper, and Maria Shriver. At the same time, I keep on seeing and reading things I wish I’d included: A Tintoretto sketch of heaven I recently saw in the Louvre; passages from Annie Di…

Top Five (Less Sensational, But More Dangerous) Things to Remember About Pat Robertson (1930-2023)

By Mark Hulsether

…s were a case of FEMA using the Katrina disaster, deliberately or through incompetence, as a pretext to give Robertson a windfall of cash. This is a clear contender for the top ten list, though it doesn’t make today’s five because it’s just barely possible that Robertson did some good in New Orleans, just as it’s possible that he is doing some good in Haiti now. My actual top pick is Robertson’s casual contempt for, and celebration of outright reb…

Haiti and the Push for Theological Questions

By Paula M. Cooey

…ed recovery and development for close to a century. Prior to the revolt French-ruled Saint-Domingue-now-Haiti was stripped of its natural resources by French occupation. Subsequent to the embargoes, in the early twentieth century, Haiti suffered invasion and occupation by this country at the expense of development on its own terms. All of these conditions—French plundering, colonial and European embargo, and US occupation—produced long-lasting and…

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

By Haroon Moghul

…litzer Prize. I played the lead character, a Muslim American, who had renounced Islam and became very anti-Islam. The subject matter of that play made lots of Muslims very uncomfortable but I have to adhere to being a Creator, to being an artist, to being a writer, to being an actor. People don’t like to hear this, but my character on the Daily Show is a character. The way Mindy Kaling is playing a character. It’s a character, but it’s not me. Eve…

Another Manufactured Outrage: Rep. Ilhan Omar Did Nothing Wrong in Listing Hamas, Israel, and U.S. Together

By Joshua Shanes

…? Rep. Omar’s original question is a fair one. Feeding these manufactured incidents—with incendiary language—when you don’t even know what happened isn’t just an innocent mistake or a byproduct of social media. Rep. Omar is getting death threats and this rhetoric is feeding that. Activists—especially progressive activists who recognize the power of rhetoric to create stochastic terror and who called out Trump for doing this very thing—might better…

The 17th Century Roots of Roy Moore’s Refusal to Concede the Election

By Karen E. Park

…narrow victory, and Judge Roy Moore lost fair and square. But he didn’t concede. Moore’s short non-concession speech late Tuesday night was comprised almost entirely of a paraphase of Psalm 40. He attempted to prop up the sad and subdued crowd by saying: But we also know that God is always in control. You know, part of the thing—part of the problem with this campaign is we’ve been painted in an unfavorable and unfaithful light. We’ve been put in…

Diplomatic Suckerhood: Why Israel Is Fighting Toward its Own Demise

By Ira Chernus

…that US envoy George Mitchell “would be able to coax Arab states to make concrete normalization commitments if only a temporary settlement freeze was declared.” In other words, since we know that the other side hates us and will never make peace, we won’t take a first step toward peace. Most Israelis share this view, according to columnist Shmuel Rosner in the Jerusalem Post: It is clear to the vast majority of Israelis that freezing the settlemen…

The Sacred and the Dead: Truckin’ as a New American Pilgrimage

By Varun Soni

…and devout fan base that literally spent their lives following them from concert to concert, city to city, state to state, and country to country. Known as Deadheads, the devotees of the Grateful Dead collectively formed an intentionally itinerant community numbering in the tens of thousands, with their own customs, vernacular, art, and economy. In his explanation of the lure of the Grateful Dead to thousands of Deadheads around the country, Garci…

Sex and the Chosen People: Be Fruitful and Multiply, Etc.

By Mandy Van Deven

…ers who explore a broad range of fundamental questions in an effort to balance ancient tradition and modern sexuality.” The Passionate Torah aims to “bridge the gap between the sacred and the sexual.” I recently spoke to Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg about the challenges of bringing new perspectives on sexuality and feminism to the forefront of Judaism. I went to my first Passover seder this year and was interested to learn that part of the tradition inc…