Anti-Government

This year has marked, I believe, the beginning of the end of the war between science and religion. Creationism cannot last. The New Atheists are now old (or departed). And between these camps the middle ground continues to expand. Indeed, many folks have been hard at it, doing a new kind of peace work. Some have done it intentionally, some have not. Outliers, both atheist and religious hardliners, continue to wage battle but they look increasingly irrelevant.

An interview with Patrick Mason, the nation’s leading scholarly expert on anti-Mormonism.

But 9/11 has changed the kind of art we’re interested in.

The Tea Party and Republican candidates have help from organizations to promote their antilabor messaging, trying to weaken unions across states.

An overview.

Confessed shooter wrote that “politically correct elites” made Europe soft to Islam.

After treating the Vietnam War and the torture images of Abu Ghraib in his most recent films, Oscar-winning documentary maker Errol Morris turns to a 1977 scandal involving North Carolina beauty queen Joyce McKinney in his new documentary Tabloid.

Bachmann speaks from the altar, Palin from behind a camera.

When the Southern Sudanese declare independence from the Islamist regime in the North ending a half century of civil wars many, like William Maddeng, a refugee in Israel, won’t be celebrating.

If Bishop Andudu of Kadugli, Sudan had not been in Denver in June, he might be in a mass grave right now. In an interview with RD the bishop calls for international intervention to prevent the government’s “final solution” while emphasizing that this is not a war between Muslims and Christians.