Mar 25 2012

Myths can be dangerous

“Patriotic Gore is Not Really Much Like Any Other Book by Anyone”

By , March 22, 2012, at 7:02 AM ET … Fifty years ago this spring, the great literary critic Edmund Wilson, author of classic intellectual…  [more]

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Mar 25 2012

God gave us barley

What Would Jesus Brew? Lots, beer makers say

By Amanda Greene, March 23 … All this talk of beer was making the former seminarian thirsty. “Cheers,” said assistant brewer Christopher McGarvey, taking a sip from his pint of golden ale.…  [more]

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Mar 25 2012

An overwhelming consensus

The False Debate About Attacking Iran

By , March 24, 2012 … I wonder if we in the news media aren’t inadvertently leaving the impression that there is a genuine debate among experts about whether an Israeli…  [more]

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Mar 24 2012

Vicious and exclusionary rhetoric

The War On Religion Does Not Exist

By , 03/23/2012  6:40 pm … Apparently, attempts are underway to open a new front in the supposed “war on religion” in my home state of Louisiana as…  [more]

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Mar 24 2012

So sensationally unfunny

War on Iran? It is too soon to reminisce about Iraq, let alone have a repeat

By , Friday 23 March 2012 16.30 EDT … The thing about a supertanker is that at least you can turn it…  [more]

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Mar 23 2012

History is rarely gentle

Syria’s refugees remind us of the price of revolution

By , Friday 23 March 2012 07.12 EDT … Here is the truth about revolution, war, dictatorship and resistance. It is a simple truth and it is crushing: people…  [more]

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Mar 23 2012

The enduring resilience of denial

‘Belambai’ is Afghanistan’s ‘My Lai’

By Paul Rosenberg, 21 Mar 2012 13:07 … He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss …  [more]

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