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Somewhere out there: Corporate utopias of space and sea
...and this asshat wants to go to Mars? During my lighter moments, it’s tempting to add space to the list of things the new administration might fix through some magical...
Everson’s Children
by Ann Pellegrini...way Santorum effortlessly elides the public square with the state and (2) Santorum’s elevation of free exercise over disestablishment as the living pulse of religious freedom. Minimizing—if not outright denying—disestablishment...
Understanding the president’s reality: A psychoanalytic contribution to public life

This essay is the first of two parts, inspired by a conversation between the author, Judith Gurewich, and Robert Orsi. The second essay expands on their discussion. It would not...
Whose foreskin?
by Charles Gelman...studies they cite are mostly focused on HIV transmission rates in sub-Saharan Africa. On the other hand, the small cadre of activists that has promoted the proposal in San Francisco,...
‘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...
The skull that begs
by Marko Geslani...an uneven terrain of post-Orientalist ennui. Whereas for the producers of Believer, the Aghoris exhibit a most extreme—and marketable—form of religious other, for the appeals court in San Diego, yoga...
Facing death alone: Mortuary prospects for the socially solo in Japan
...workshop on “Designing My Own Funeral,” the thirty-five participants, a mix of both women and men, spent three-and-a-half hours sharing stories of different innovations they had made in funerals or...
Dust to dust: A religion of return migration
...Sánchez surmising that the new country must have been “a strange environment for a person who had only recently shook the dust of rural Mexico from his or her shoes.”...
The cross: more than religion?
by Winnifred Fallers Sullivan...injunction forbidding display of the cross at that place on the grounds that it would be viewed by a reasonable observer as an unconstitutional government endorsement of religion. The six...