The Lessons of the Palestinian Model City
Rejecting the “theology of victimization.”
June 17, 2016
Religion May Be Part of Human Nature, But Why?
Fear of retribution vs. craving transcendence.
In God Is Watching You, the evolutionary biologist Dominic Johnson contends that religion has its roots in the evolution of the human mind and human societies, and is thus unlikely ever to disappear, contrary to the fantasies of the “New Atheists”; instead, it resurfaces as New Age spirituality, superstitions, or political ideology. Johnson focuses specifically on the selective advantages of fear of divine retribution, whether in the form of hellfire, karma, or whatever else. Accepting Johnson’s basic thesis, Lawrence Klepp argues that it might be something else about religion that is most ingrained in the human psyche:
June 17, 2016
Elie Kedourie’s Radical Dissent from Orientalist Orthodoxies
An Iraqi Jew and leading scholar of the Middle East.
Iran Prepares for a New Civil War in Iraq
Extremists thrive on turmoil.
A Tale of Wealth, Corruption, and Small-Town Jewish Mores
A member of the Rothschild family finds himself in a small shtetl for the Sabbath.
Religion May Be Part of Human Nature, But Why?
Fear of retribution vs. craving transcendence.