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Levitating Alien Mind Gods
a href=”http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2010/11/13/BELIEFS.html”>After months of delays and excuses, I finally got around to doing an interview with Jeffrey Kripal, a religion professor at Rice...
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The Suspicious Revolution
What does it do to people, and to a society, to suddenly become revolutionary? I recently had the chance to speak with Talal Asad, one of the leading anthropologists alive today, about the experience...
View ArticleA Law Higher than the Law
Law, law, law. The other day I published an essay about the renegade lawyer William Stringfellow. Today I’ve got a new one at Harper’s exploring what Occupy Wall Street has to do, if anything at all,...
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On Strike Against Myself
Can you spot the author? Photo by The Eyes of New York, via Flickr. I tried to go on strike for May Day, following the Occupy movement’s calls for a general strike, and it was harder than I thought. My...
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What I Learned about Empire in the West Bank
At the edge of the West Bank village of Faqqua, an Israeli soldier watches from the other side of the Green Line. Photo by Bryan MacCormack of Left in Focus. The Holy Land is supposed to be a far-away...
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‘This Isn’t, Thank God, Another Book about the Proofs for God’s Existence’
The filter blog Arts & Letters Daily is great, and it’s even greater that today it featured Robert Bolger’s excellent Los Angeles Review of Books review of God in Proof. Writes Bolger: Schneider...
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Give the Gift of God & Anarchy
What better gift to give friends and loved ones than stories of grasping at the impossible? According to the Los Angeles Review of Books, God in Proof “breathes life back into proofs” and is...
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Astrology as Metaphor
Jantar Mantar Road, a short passageway through the administrative center of New Delhi, takes its name from a complex of gigantic red astronomical instruments at its north terminus, built by Maharaja...
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Innovation for Everyone
Catch it while we still have public radio: This weekend I’ll be on WBGH-Boston’s show Innovation Hub. Listen online or over the air with your local NPR affiliate. I’m talking about Ours to Hack and to...
View ArticleThe only important cause of the Colorado fires is not a mystery
Imagine if a group of foreign conspirators, by piloting a humming drone armada, dropped incendiary bombs on an American neighborhood. Somewhere between 500 and 1000 homes were destroyed. The smoke...
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