Holidays in Haiti
With John Kerry‘s hair looming large on the newscape, Haiti has been returned to its “place” in the hierarchy of places that matter, or rather, don’t. Left unanswered are serious questionsfrom serious Continue Reading →
Tag: HOLY WAR
The Voodoo Question
Most of the mainstream press has covered the violence in Haiti as if just learning about the country for the first time. Is the violence a civil war? A coup? Continue Reading →
Enlightening Iraq
We suppose it should come as no surprise that The Salt Lake Tribune, using a Combined News Service report, should give bigger play to the latest bit of Paul Bremer‘s diplomatic theology in Continue Reading →
The “R” Word
There’s a valuable comparison to be found by slogging through this week’s New Yorker lead story (print only), by the normally-astute Jon Lee Anderson, on “the Shiite leader who says he can run Continue Reading →
The "R" Word
There’s a valuable comparison to be found by slogging through this week’s New Yorker lead story (print only), by the normally-astute Jon Lee Anderson, on “the Shiite leader who says he can run Continue Reading →
The Joy of Battle
“In the sitting room of a flat in Bloomsbury, Geoffrey Kirk introduces himself jovially as the man who is going to split the Church of England.” So writes Jamie Wilson in the British Guardian, deftly Continue Reading →
Cows — Sacred, Mad, and Bad
Religious fascism is a funny thing. Well, not really, but it is peculiar, especially in India, where to be a Hindu nationalist one doesn’t even need to be a Hindu. Continue Reading →
Guantanamos All Around
British novelist Margaret Drabble calls Guantanamo “the Bastille of America,” and the imprisonment without trial of Muslims there one of the U.S.’s worst (current) sins. Why then, asks The Guardian‘s Nick Cohen, aren’t Drabble Continue Reading →
Holy Wars
“Holy war” is not a term limited to militant jihadists; it’s a crucial lens through which to understand many of the world’s conflicts, from those where religion is front and Continue Reading →
Christ Without Saddam
Saddam’s not the only thing gone missing from Iraq; according to the British Daily Telegraph, booze and gambling are disappearing as well. The work of Christian missionaries from the west? Hardly. Damien Continue Reading →