RDBook: A City Too Busy To Hate
A new guidebook to the city of Atlanta, Sacred Places, focuses on civil rights sites, from churches to restaurants, and shows how the history of the struggle for freedom still permeates the urban landscape.
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RDBook: Is Zionism Anti-Semitic?: Zizek’s Violence
Philosopher Slavoj Zizek thinks that Judaism and Zionism are in tension with each other, but this seeming paradox is just the tip of the iceberg, or Greenberg, or Goldberg…
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RDBook: Huckabee ♥’s Nobody
Republican presidential hopeful, and dimpled everyman, Mike Huckabee’s new book is an attempt to settle scores from a contentious campaign. Why would a man with his eye on higher office so publicly slap Mitt Romney, the religious right, and the media?
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RDBook: Christian Culture Clash
Why are conservative churches thriving in the “spiritual wasteland” of the Pacific Northwest, while liberal churches struggle? Author James Wellman explains what’s going on in the region, and how this plays out across the United States.
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RDBook: Bernard Avishai’s The Hebrew Republic
Political economist Bernard Avishai thinks that Israel’s best hope for peace and a bright future is to embrace European-style secular democracy, integrating its Arab citizens into a business-driven globalized economy.
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RDBook: Is Nothing Secular? A Review of Jewel of Medina
A romance novel about Muhammad is widely condemned and its UK publisher hides under police protection, even as its author insists she means to build a bridge between cultures. Our reviewer explains the historical and literary context of the controversy.
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