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A new study concludes that the brains of born-again Christians are smaller than those of other affiliations or non-believers. Welcome back to the 19th century.

Dozens of women drive. No arrests.

Republicans’ Islamophobic comments in Monday’s NH debate is instructive.

Don’t we in the West laugh at authoritarian states that control women’s clothes and sex lives?

Panic over the possibility of same-sex marriage passing in NY drives Dolan‘s arguments.

Long’s case was not simply, as you suggest, a “wreck” or a car “accident,” but a case of DUI: Driving/Pastoring under the influence of unchecked power and accountability. This continues to be a historic problem with commercial celebrity preachers, and given your status and peer group, I’m sure you know this all too well.

Usually, a book about ideas is pretty straightforward. The author is saying this stuff because he believes it. With Terry Eagleton, the British Marxist literary theorist, it’s less so. Marxism, in Eagleton’s hands, is neither exactly a science, nor a practical political agenda. It emerges as essentially a vision, a gaze, a discourse—of political life transformed, of human dignity at last universalized.

“If anyone can look at the way religion has treated and treats women and not be pissed off, they have something wrong with them. So, yes, I intend on pissing off every misogynist homophobic religious conservative and/or empire-building neo-conservative imperialist supporter of our permanent war economy stuck in the ideological straightjacket that I used to so proudly wear.”

Eleven years after apologizing for supporting slavery and segregation, the SBC elects a black officer, but rebuffs calls for LGBT equality.

As marriage equality moves closer to passage in New York opponents are in a panic.