In his ill-chosen remarks to an April 6, 2008 San Francisco fundraiser, Barack Obama showed the danger bad social science poses to progressive politics. Commenting on jobless communities in rural...
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Getting one’s atheism on the cheap
by Charles GelmanJacques Berlinerblau, on The Chronicle of Higher Education‘s Brainstorm blog, enumerates some of the prevalent misconceptions that inform what he calls “Pop Atheism”: 1) That the term “atheist” has a...
Ecologies of the dead and living: Mourning out of place
No olvidados: Unclaimable bodies of the US-Mexico border
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American carpe diem
by David Marno
...to tell me his life story. John moved to San Francisco in the 1990s from New York because conditions in the latter back then were not ideal for gay men....
The politics of spirituality
Parodic politics
by Melissa Wilcox...the predominantly gay areas of San Francisco, the Sisters soon became an icon of the gay community in that city and later spread internationally; a member of the national council...
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Whose foreskin?
by Charles GelmanCourtney Bender on the controversial ballot measure to prohibit circumcision of males under eighteen years of age, which will be up for a vote in San Francisco in November: Fortunately,...
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‘Under God’ not a prayer, rules Appeals Court
by Grace YukichThe San Francisco Chronicle reports that the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco has ruled that the words “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance are not...
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Jewish groups decry new documentary
by Charles Gelman...year’s San Francisco Jewish Film Festival: The festival’s board of directors surely knew that showing Rachel—which investigates the violent death of Rachel Corrie, a 23-year old American peace activist, at...
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Reverence for words
by Nathan SchneiderAt First Things, Stefan McDaniel takes a stand against blogging: Someone recently encouraged me to write more, because “words aren’t lifeblood. Words are cheap.” Words are certainly held cheap, and...
Religion in Human Evolution
Five questions for Robert Bellah
by Luke Timothy Johnson...argument deserves all the honor it will undoubtedly receive. This essay is a slightly revised version of remarks delivered last month in San Francisco, at the annual meeting of the...