"Waltz with Bashir" and "Lebanon": Review by Ralph Seliger
Vol 25.5 SepOct 2010
Response to Noach Dzmura
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Dzmura’s arguments stand no chance of being adopted by the American mainstream any time soon. If we want to “move the needle” of public opinion, we need to make more moderate ones.
Vol 25.5 SepOct 2010
A Progressive Religious Agenda Toward Gay Rights – A Response to “Ten Reasons Why Gay Rights Is a Religious Issue” by Jay Michaelson
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Essentialist arguments may win compassion from heterosexuals, but they don’t reflect reality. Let’s render marginal the idea that homosexuality is sin.
Vol 25.5 SepOct 2010
Why a New Translation of the New Testament?
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As a Greek scholar, I undertook a new translation of the New Testament to give a chastely modern, literary version of a major world text.
Vol 25.5 SepOct 2010
Ever Dying, Never Dead – That’s Life!
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On Yom Kippur we strive to be angels, but we are also reminded of our essential difference from them.
Vol 25.5 SepOct 2010
Cuba Sí
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It's 2010 and I'm visiting Cuba again. I am tired, old, discouraged, trampled by excuses and broken promises, and ground down by human failure and our incessant will for domination.
Vol 25.5 SepOct 2010
Economics for a Global Community — A Conversation with Joseph Stiglitz
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In this conversation U.S. economist Joseph Stiglitz, recipient of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics, endorses economic equality and workplace democracy, and discusses how to accomplish the Network of Spiritual Progressives' economic goals, with which he sympathizes.
Activism
Q&A on the ESRA
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This Q&A explains why we chose the approach we did in the details of this amendment (including why it is so long and so technical).
Activism
ESRA: Environmental and Social Responsibility Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
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We invite you to read our Environmental and Social Responsibility Amendment (ESRA) and to review the accompanying Q&A to understand why we have gone further than other amendments proposed to deal with the core problems of corporate power and the need for environmental responsibility.
Vol 25.5 SepOct 2010
2010 Elections: Why Have the Democrats Lost Popular Support?
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Perhaps the November elections will not be as harsh on the Democrats as the polls predict, but the Dems' behavior in power has decreased their popularity dramatically.
Culture
Seventy-Five as the New Forty-Five
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What if, as expected, regenerative science and lifestyle improvements lead to another twenty-plus-year extension of life expectancy in the twenty-first century?