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Faith-Based Initiative
Journalist Chris Hedges attended the annual convention of National Religious Broadcasters and writes about the political theology of “Dominionism” that unites different groups on the Religious Right in the new issue of Harper’s Magazine. He’ll discuss the weekend’s news, including the national simulcast of the Justice Sunday: the Filibuster Against People Of Faith event organized by the Family Research Council in support of the use of the “nuclear option” in Senate judicial confirmation hearings.
Also: Historian Scott Sandage on the changing definition of failure in America.
Faith-Based Initiative
Chris Hedges,
Senior Fellow at the Nation Institute, contributor to Harper's Magazine this month and author of the forthcoming,
Losing Moses on the Freeway: The Ten Commandments in America
(The Free Press, June 2005),
- critiques the Family Research Council's "Justice Sunday: The Filibuster Against People of Faith" event and the weekend's news
Bed-Stuy: Do or Die?
Brett Johnson Editor, Time Out New York
edited an article about gentrification in Bedford-Stuyvesant
» Time Out New York
Losers
Scott Sandage,
Associate Professor of History at Carnegie Mellon University and author,
Born Losers: A History of Failure in America
(Harvard University Press, 2005),
- gives a history of failure in the United States
New York 51: District 26
Eric Gioia,
Councilmember (D-Queens),
- on life and politics in his district
» District 26
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What would be on your list of banned words or phrases? Comment below!- Comments [172]
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