Mystical Politics

Since the semester ended (but not, alas, the grading, which still isn't done!) I've been doing some traveling. I went to Washington,...

More bloggers on Paul Mirecki: WITCH HUNT IN KANSAS . The author comments: "[Kansas Rep.] Landwehr is right about one thing. This al...

Latest developments in the story about Paul Mirecki: Anti-creationism professor: Resignation was forced . An interesting blog comment: Ac...

Jim Davila at PaleoJudaica just brought to my attention a disturbing series of events involving Professor Paul Mirecki of the University of...

Another good Hitchens column on Ramsey Clark, Saddam's chief apologist .

At the Organization of the Islamic Conference meeting in Mecca, Saudi Arabia yesterday (Dec. 8, 2005), President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran...

Is this bizarre, or what?. Mr. Gibson's television production company will base the four-hour miniseries for ABC on the self-published ...

A couple of interesting new articles on Iraq. The first one, The Big Black Book of Horrors , is on a recently published book about the atroc...

My way home from the SBL was much more eventful than I hoped it would be. When I finished loading up my car with luggage, I went to start it...

I attended the AAR/SBL meeting in Philadelphia the week before Thanksgiving, and was part of the book review session organized by the Early ...

According to this November 23, 2005 report by MEMRI: Latest News , a delegation from the Presbyterian Church USA met with Hezbullah's co...

An interesting new book on the contemporary Muslim denial of the history of the Temple in Jerusalem, reviewed in Haaretz. The historian Dr....

Nicholas Kristoff has another column (from today's New York Times ) on how the genocide is getting worse in Darfur. He points out that ...

If you've ever wondered what happened to good old Stalinist rhetoric, take a look at the Iranian website, The World Without Zionism . Th...

The Washington Times is running an article that says that Saudi Arabia has agreed to end all economic boycotts of Israel as a condition of ...

A scary article on Iran by Amir Taheri in the Jerusalem Post of November 10, 2005. Some important points: When Iran's President Mahmoud ...

A reporter from Ha'aretz went to speak to some of the rioting French youths. He says, first of all, "There is something odd about ...

Another good column by Christopher Hitchens on Realism in Darfur - Consider the horrors of peace. As he says: "What was all that garbag...

An interesting perspective on the riots in France - Adloyada: Paris is burning . The author suggests that the riots are "the ultimate o...

This article argues that Rage of French Youth Is a Fight for Recognition - it's a protest against having no future, rather than being a...