"The Killling Box"

July 21, 2006
More on Lebanon from Ken Silverstein: a short interview with Augustus Richard Norton, an anthropologist and retired U.S. Army...

Glory Bumps and Cartwheels

July 20, 2006
In a recent Washington Babylon post, Ken Silverstein draws our attention to an unconventional barometer of the worsening situation...

Bidding Once, Bidding Twice...

July 18, 2006
The New York Times reports on the G.O.P's "faltering" efforts towoo black voters (and wow easily impressed white "moderates")...

The Next Taliban?

July 18, 2006
The good news, we guess, is that the old “domino theory” of the Cold War is really dead. The...
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Good Enough

July 17, 2006
Mitt Romney's evangelical appeal By Nicole Greenfield Last year Amy Sullivan predicted in the Washington...

Supporters of Hizbollah

July 15, 2006
Twice now, on CNN and, we think, NBC, we’ve heard all critics of Israel’s actions in Lebanon lumped together...

The Jewish Friend

July 15, 2006
Elizabeth Rich: "Today's program reads, as it does every Sunday, 'We are a growing family, focused on loving God,...

Fundamentalism's Power Principle

July 12, 2006
Writing in The Boston Globe, the eminent historian of religion Harvey Cox sees the "new" evangelical powers such as...

No Go Godot

July 12, 2006
A lefty is fed up with waiting for the religious left: “The fervent hope for the creation of a...

The Long Leash of the Lord

July 11, 2006
Noel Black: When Rob Brendle, Associate Pastor at New Life Church, agreed to write a column for my...

I Heart Decadence

July 10, 2006
Christianity Today's Philip Yancey considers "The Lure of Theocracy." He's against it -- we think.

Belief and Disbelief

July 7, 2006
Salon writer Steve Paulson talks belief with disbeliever Sam Harris, author of the bestselling book The End of Faith....

Innocent

July 7, 2006
“Hamza Walker Lindh has come to embody the challenge of Islam to America, and the challenge is simply this:...

Updike Misses Jihad

July 5, 2006
“If only the novelist had spent more time dreaming himself into the paranoid and angry world of Qutb and...

A Different Set of Questions

June 28, 2006
Diane Winston: Is the press ready to cover the first female presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church in America?

Who's Kooky, Now?

June 27, 2006
Slate‘s Martin Edlund trots out what will likely soon be the reigning narrative for mainstream coverage of the “religious...

The Real Religious Left

June 26, 2006
The "new religious left" story has become a staple of newspapers, but much more revealing, we think, is this...

Loss for Words

June 21, 2006
Linda Wertheimer’s NPR interview this morning with retiring Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson is surprisingly tough, openly skeptical of Gerson’s...

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