Quiet Desperation
The Enthusiast
Superwoman
The Faith Continent
It is terribly clichéd to marvel at India’s spiritual superabundance, but that is because few travelers to the subcontinent can help doing so. It is not only the millions of gods that amaze, or the profusion of temples, festivals, idols, and holy men. India’s uncanny sensation of sanctity also comes from the way time seems all tangled up, so that religious practices from across the millennia coexist in the same period. READ MORE >>
The Horror, The Horror
Lost in Translation
Truther Consequences
Alex Jones is a husky man with short sandy hair, weary eyes, baby cheeks, and the kind of deep, gravelly voice made for horror-movie trailers. And it’s horror he has in mind. "Your New World Order will fall!" he screams through a megaphone at the shiny façade of a nondescript office building. "Humanity will defeat you!" READ MORE >>
The End Of An Error
Ok, maybe this makes up for Rick Warren. A couple of months ago, Obama seemed to be walking back from his promise to undo the destructive “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on gays in the military. But today, in a video posted on the change.gov website (a site, full disclosure, designed by my husband, who works for the Obama transition), Robert Gibbs sounded pretty unambiguous. READ MORE >>
Three a.m. for Feminism
Amy Siskind, a 42-year-old mother of two from Westchester, stood in a Washington, D.C., park on the last day in May, telling a few hundred cheering people that she would not, under any circumstances, vote for Barack Obama. She was a lifelong Democrat, she said, a donor and a volunteer for the party. But, watching the race with a "mixture of shock, disgrace, and disgust," she was appalled at the leadership's failure to defend Hillary Clinton from the sexism that she believes bolstered Barack Obama's campaign. READ MORE >>
