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Why Are You Laughing?

By Jennifer Mackenzie | January 27, 2015

Two ways of looking at “Je suis Charlie.”

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What’s Left?

By Mark Bergen | September 16, 2010

Daniel Schultz parses a political theology.

Killing the Buddha

Ghosts of Cairo

By Jeff Sharlet | June 6, 2009

Anthea Butler hears the ghost of Malcolm X in Obama’s Cairo speech. “So the past isn’t over until we understand it,” writes poet Lawrence Raab in his new book, The…

Killing the Buddha

The Mysteries of Torture

By Jeff Sharlet | April 29, 2009

One doesn’t often look to Keith Olbermann for revelation of religion in the public sphere, but he inadvertently exposes the raw nerve at the heart of the “debate” over torture.…

Killing the Buddha

Talmud vs. Torture

By Jeff Sharlet | April 29, 2009

I noted yesterday that religious voices against torture have not been clearly heard in the public conversation. That’s in part the fault of a media that tends to “get” religion…