Jihad vs. Pornocracy
The news story last week, with its tale of sexual and religious abuse of Muslim prisoners at Guantanomo, was reminiscent of earlier reports of abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. In both...
View ArticleJihad vs. Pornocracy Revisited
By all accounts, Taliban-style Islam did not set well with the Afghani people. Afghani Islam is rooted in the Sufi tradition, with an accepting attitude toward folk devotion, dancing and the human...
View ArticleEncountering John Paul
Part 1 of 3 On the afternoon of October 7, 1979, I stood in a huge crowd of joyous people, an island of misery in a sea of celebration. The crowd had gathered on the Mall in Washington, DC, to greet...
View ArticleGuest Post: More on those Monologues
This guest post is from "Robin" who posted a comment on my last Sunday Night Journal entry in which she said she disagreed with Franklin Salazar about the origins of the feminist movement but didn't...
View ArticleLooking Homeward
I suppose one could find something to quibble about in Bill Kauffman's new book Look Homeward, America: In Search of Reactionary Radicals and Front Porch Anarchists. First, there is his self...
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