Today we look at “Sharia”—a Muslim legal system that has garnered attention lately for it’s harsh sentences, such as a stoning verdict for pre-marital sex in northern Nigeria. But Sharia as it’s practiced in that part of Africa may not be Sharia as it’s meant to be. Plus, how a new sense of aesthetics is permeating our lives, and the Monday news-from-the-Beltway wrap-up.
Blowin' in the Wind
Joel Mowbray, National Review correspondent on Iraq ,a UN resolution and other news from Washington DC
Hello, Dalai
open phones on the Dalai Lama’s appearance at Central Park this weekend, and on the increasing influence of Buddhism
The Abuses of Sharia
Carina Tertsakian, Researcher on Nigeria for Human Rights Watch on the harsh verdicts being meted out under Sharia in Nigeria and Shehu Sani, President, Civil Rights Congress, Kaduna, Nigeria devout Muslim and political candidate (Nigerian senate) who thinks Sharia is being used ...
AIDS
Walter Armstrong, editor-in-chief, Poz magazine on whether AIDS/HIV has been glamorized in popular culture
Living for Design
Virgina Postrel, columnist and author, The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness on the rise of aesthetics that is permeating our lives
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