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The Day After: "Mourning in America"

June 7, 2004
The eulogies rightfully remember Reagan as the ideological inspiration for many of those currently in power, but his darker...

05 June 2004 Daily Links

June 5, 2004
11:18 pm: Since Revealer editor Jeff Sharlet blurbed What Would Buffy Do? The Vampire Slayer as Spiritual Guide — “At last, a Buffy book...

02 June 2004 Daily Links

June 4, 2004
The making of martyrs: Nancy Updike, Malia Zoghlin, and Michael Wean combine photographs and sound to document — step by step — the...

The Third Martyr

June 4, 2004
The pictures from Abu Ghraib won’t just change the course of the war, writes Ali Eteraz — they may transform Islam....

03 June 2004 Daily Links

June 3, 2004
3:30 pm: And the most Catholic senator of them all is… John Kerry! So says a new “study” by Sen....
Feature

What Is It About the OC?

June 2, 2004
American terrorists, California boys, and how the press thinks about treason. By Julia Rabig In the wake of the...
Review

Godzilla, Born Again

May 29, 2004
The original Godzilla, a parable of atomic hubris, is playing in America for the first time. Is its hero...

While You Wait

May 25, 2004
Designer Betsy Vardell and The Revealer‘s editors are busy preparing a makeover that’ll make the site more comprehensive, easier to...

Random Links

May 21, 2004
“Why Don’t Journalists Get Religion?” Peter Steinfels, Laurie Goodstein, Diane Winston, and Revealer editor Jeff Sharlet answer in Columbia Journalism...

Shake Hands With the Devil

May 18, 2004
NPR’s “Fresh Air,” a daily interview program hosted by Terry Gross, often comes under attack for what conservative critics...

NPR's Little Gods

May 17, 2004
Kathryn Joyce examines NPR’s mild religion. It might be a natural reaction, considering the “uptick”of religion-associated violence in the world, to...

Real Live Preacher

May 10, 2004
Scott M. Korb reviews a blog of freaky belief that’s more-and-more common. He fancies himself something of a freak, a...

Cookies and Coffee Served Afterward

May 6, 2004
Today begins the three day public conference of New York University’s Center for Religion and Media, the institution at which The...

How to See Evil

May 6, 2004
Why do so many Americans believe that Saddam supported Al Qaeda when even the White House denies it? The...

Welcome to the Pantheon

May 5, 2004
Thomas Hamill escapes from Iraq and gets drafted into the cult of American Heroes. By Jeff Sharlet First there...

The Buddha-Whale

May 5, 2004
The good people at Powell’s, the best-stocked independent bookstore in America, requested a tour report from my Killing the Buddha co-author Peter...

Who You Calling Feminist?

May 4, 2004
Revealer contributor Julia Rabig writes: The unfolding of abuse scandals that accelerated in the Catholic Church over the past few years has...

Darwin-Free Fun

May 1, 2004
Not everything at Dinosaur Adventure Land, a creationism theme park in Pensacoloa, Florida, is about dinosaurs. For instance, there’s the...

Satan is Real

April 30, 2004
After three centuries of decline, exorcism is booming in the Catholic Church. Tracy Wilkinsonof The Los Angeles Times profiles Father Gabriele Amorth, the...

Pictures from an Inquisition

April 30, 2004
By Jeff Sharlet “Inquisition,” by Francisco Goya. Crucifixion, by U.S. Army specialist Sabrina Harman.) The picture on the left...

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