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“Free Radicals” Celebrates Subversive Science
(Image: Profile Books) With his book, “Free Radicals,” British physicist and journalist Michael Brooks seeks principally to provide a counternarrative to popular interpretations of the scientific world …
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To My Mother
Catholic Bishop William Lori, the Rev. Matthew Harrison, Dr. Ben Mitchell, Rabbi Meir Soloveichik and Craig Mitchell are sworn in during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing …
Bill Moyers: Freedom of and From Religion
The president did something agile and wise the other day. And something quite important to the health of our politics. He reached up and snuffed out what some folks …
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Will Catholic Bishops and the Religious Right Save Obama?
What is most striking about the showdown over contraceptive freedom is not the political victory that President Obama earned by standing up for women's reproductive rights, although his Republican …
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A Religious War Out of Thin Air
Washington - At ease, Christian soldiers. There is no “war on religion,” no assault on the Catholic Church. A faith that has endured for thousands of years will survive …
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A Biohazard Valentine of Dissent
Recently, discourse, within the free-range pathogen zone of the U.S. political realm, has been infected and inflamed by the use of verbiage (applied both in the metaphoric and literal …
Julie Doucet: How Does It Feel to Be Placed Among the Comic Greats?
This week in “Ladydrawers” (catch up here), we have the third installment of our interview with one of the most important and talented female artists in North America - …
It’s the Sex, Stupid: An Interview With Author Nancy Cohen About How the Sexual Counterrevolution Is Polarizing America
Nancy L. Cohen, author of “Delirium.” Nancy L. Cohen: “Delirium” tells the story of how a small group of religious zealots captured the Republican Party, took control …
Interview With Chris Hedges About Black Bloc
(Photo: Collin Anderson Sgroi / Flickr) Chris Hedges' syndicated Truthdig column “Black Bloc: The Cancer in Occupy,” printed Tuesday at Truthout and elsewhere, created quite a stir …
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Bridging the Divide
Abu Dhabi, UAE - I've just finished teaching a three week January term course at New York University's Abu Dhabi campus (NYUAD). I've had the great fortune to teach …