Articles in English
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August 28, 2011 American Theocracy Revisited By ROSS DOUTHAT During George W. Bush’s presidency, many liberal and secular Americans came to regard religious conservatives not merely as their political opponents, but as a kind of existential threat. The religious right, they decided, wasn’t a normal political movement. Rather, it was an essentially illiberal force, bent…
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This is an important, engaging book. Subtitled “How a Worldwide Movement Is Challenging the Cult of Speed,” In Praise of Slow explores the “Slow” revolution as it applies to food, city life, cars, medicine, sex, work and children. Probably best known for the Slow Food movement, which began in Italy in response to fast food,…
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A pair of animal lovers entered a kennel for 30 hours. For a $ 5 donation, visitors could take them for a brief “walk (details HERE). In the same period, Clayton Hodges, 15, locked himself inside a dog cage for 10 hours on Friday outside the Canadian Tire store in Abbotsford. Hodges raised more than…
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Remembering Norway’s victims, I strongly recommend Chris Hedges’ article on TruthDig.com. (26 July, 2011) Fundamentalism Kills The gravest threat we face from terrorism, as the killings in Norway by Anders Behring Breivik underscore, comes not from the Islamic world but the radical Christian right and the secular fundamentalists who propagate the bigoted, hateful caricatures of observant Muslims and…
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