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A Lebanese Angle on the Rima Fakih Story
Apart from being an excellent excuse to boost web traffic with pictures of bikini-clad women (cf. The Huffington Post), you may not have seen Lebanese journalist Hanin Ghaddar’s very interesting article last week in Foreign Policy comparing...
Too Real for the Big Screen?
Two sci-fi allegories provoke unjust criticism Avatar, directed by James Cameron, 20th Century Fox, 2009. District 9, directed by Neill Blomkamp, TriStar Pictures, 2009. In a nationally televised speech in October 2002, President...
The American Way of Faith
Compromise, innovation, and tradition define American religion. One might assume that the divide in American Christianity is simply between liberal and...
Representation on the Court
Seldom as I disagree with George Will, I was surprised by the disappointment he expressed on the weblog of the Washington Post that Solicitor General Elena Kagan,...
Weighing In: Manliness, A Bad Word for a Good Thing
In his essay “What Makes A Life Significant,” William James gives voice to the “manly virtues” that Wagley, in her “Defense of Manliness,”...
An Assault on the Defense of Manliness
Sometimes the only way to properly criticize someone with ridiculous views is to quote them at length, and then, channeling Seth and Amy from “Saturday Night...
Hypocritical Mediocrity
Why did Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad get a student visa and U.S. citizenship? Marty Peretz argued yesterday that he shouldn’t have because he was...
Good and Bad Arguments for “Discrimination” against Muslims
HPR staff writer Eli Martin has a piece in today’s Crimson criticizing European “Islamophobia.” I don’t want to baldly disagree...
Not Victims: Another Case Against the Clubs
I want to comment on Sam’s final club post, because I find it compelling but nevertheless insufficient. Here’s why. Sam gives us the standard-line “progressive...
Of Burqas and Rosaries
The EU’s Islamic Identity Crisis President Obama’s address to the Muslim world in Cairo last June called for a new beginning between the United States...
Current Issue: Spring 2010
Religion in America
- Is Godless Great? A New Heyday for American Secularism
The American Way of Faith Compromise, innovation, and tradition
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