Articles — The Revealer

Iraq for Hire

April 29, 2004

Also new today: “Who Killed Pat Tillman?” AP just reported that the U.S. has a new plan for subduing Fallujah — hire...

Religion News from Iraq

April 26, 2004

A daily collage of religion news from the war in Iraq. Also new today on The Revealer: Atrios & the “Liberalish”...

Voodoo Postmortem

March 31, 2004

Revealer associate editor Kathryn Joyce writes: It’s more than an un-PC cliche. “‘Voodoo is part of Haitian politics,'” voodoo priest, Philippe Castera tells Marina Jimenez,...

Hearts, Minds, Mortars

March 30, 2004

In a 2,600 word New York Times report by David Rohde on the American “Hunt… for Hearts and Minds” in Afghanistan, the role of religion...

Which Side Are You On?

March 27, 2004

Fred Barnes, executive editor of The Weekly Standard, leaves little room for doubt in hispaean to an Iraqi Christian pastor on The...

Christ of the Coup

March 22, 2004

The Revealer‘s associate editor, Kathryn Joyce, gives The Wall Street Journal’s op-ed page poor grades in theology and history: “…The Christ of...

Who Was Yassin?

March 22, 2004

Our press tells us the natives are restless, but it does not tell us why. It reports that Sheik Ahmed Yassin‘s...

Holidays in Haiti

March 3, 2004

With John Kerry‘s hair looming large on the newscape, Haiti has been returned to its “place” in the hierarchy of...

The Voodoo Question

March 2, 2004

Most of the mainstream press has covered the violence in Haiti as if just learning about the country for...

The Joy of Battle

January 14, 2004

“In the sitting room of a flat in Bloomsbury, Geoffrey Kirk introduces himself jovially as the man who is going to...

Cows -- Sacred, Mad, and Bad

January 12, 2004

Religious fascism is a funny thing. Well, not really, but it is peculiar, especially in India, where to be...

Guantanamos All Around

December 16, 2003

British novelist Margaret Drabble calls Guantanamo “the Bastille of America,” and the imprisonment without trial of Muslims there one of the...