Religion, Politics, Et Cetera
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Jun 12
"Like the Hajj...the World Cup is a journey toward a symbolic center: millions of people save for years, travel across continents, wear clothing to signal affiliation, and perform communal rituals."
Dan Friedman on the World Cup as a pilgrimage.
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Jun 11
The World Cup is best understood not as a series of Super Bowls, but as a pilgrimage. @ReligPolitics arcmag.org/pilgrims-and-holy…
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Jun 11
"No one should feel obligated to use AI if they’re not interested in doing so. But to never use it out of fear of its power to contaminate? I guess if you don’t trust yourself."
Daniel Oppenheimer on what AI's "magic wand" can and cannot do for humanity.
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Jun 10
"Soccer has become more global, more Muslim, and more open. But FIFA’s embrace of Qatar and Saudi Arabia has corrupted the game’s new pluralism."
Dan Friedman on soccer's rapidly changing religious landscape.
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Jun 10
"It is worth thinking through why climate change talk continually invokes Christian motifs. Why learning about it brings on an experience like conversion, when nothing is the same afterwards."
Susannah Crockford on why climate grief is counterproductive.
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A Brooklyn Co-op tore itself apart over a proposal to boycott Israel.
Amy Sohn was a member of the Co-op for decades. Now she tells her story of the incident that made international news.
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An essay I wrote on the food coop boycott. It's called "My Club." @ReligPolitics
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First part of a two parter about religion and the World Cup for @ReligPolitics #lovefootballhatefifa arcmag.org/the-beautiful-gam…
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"This is a story not just about religion—it’s also deeply intertwined with race. The Republican Party’s grip on white America is strengthening, regardless of whether they go to church or not."
Ryan Burge examines how white Christians became Republican.
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"For twenty years, the Park Slope Food Coop gave me groceries, community, and a place to belong. Then came the boycott vote."
Amy Sohn recounts her personal experience with the BDS vote that tore Park Slope Food Coop apart.
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"In conservative rhetoric, bodies are an impediment to a strong nation-state, whether because of sexual desire, physical or mental issues, impairment or disability."
Emma Cieslik interviews Sara Moslener on her new book "After Purity."
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"The United States does and should continue to legislate to support family planning, but its policies should be reconsidered and designed to increase wantedness."
Leonard Lopoo on why the government should support fertility treatments.
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"The work that we do—the problems we solve, the structures we create, the care we show for others—all of this is in service of building towards a better world, one task at a time."
Sara Wolkenfeld and Samuel Arbesman on a Jewish vision for AI.
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"With a rich, plummy, booming voice like that of Basil Rathbone, or so it was said, he’d propel volleys of intricate sentences into the air."
Jenna Weissman Joselit on Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan's enthralling sermons.
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May 14
"It is hard not to imagine the eyes she was looking into, how Hodler looked back at her, and what relation was formed, or transformed, in the exchange."
@fanniebialek on a Swiss painting from a century ago helps us reflect on love over time
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At exactly 2:22 a.m., on a random Monday morning in February 2025, God asked Ché Ahn to do the seemingly impossible: run for governor of California as a Republican.
Kimberly Winston on Ahn's gubernatorial mission.
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Apr 28
I wrote for @ReligPolitics a while back about the debate over tying private school vouchers to school accreditation. It’s a live issue!
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Apr 28
"Just as we have become a formidable demographic chunk of American society, the very principles of secularism that we cherish, and which serve to protect us, are being undone."
Phil Zuckerman on being secular in Trump's America
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Apr 27
A definitive explainer on where Candace Owens gets her conspiracy theories. @GSDeutch @ArnoRosenfeld @benshapiro @benyamincohen @RealCandaceO youtube.com/watch?v=aFLLMgOD…
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Apr 26
Where does Candace Owens get her antisemitic conspiracy theories? Jay Michaelson explains their lineage, going back 500 years, in this video:
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