Reason & Society

A key challenge for socialists - Marxists and Religion - yesterday and today by Gilbert Achcar, International Viewpoint , 15 October 2004....

Quailing Before the Real: Terry Eagleton on Ethics [review of Trouble with Strangers: A Study of Ethics ] By Roland Boer, The Hobgoblin , ...

It must have been at least twenty years ago I looked up what Earl Browder had to say about the Communist Party's policy toward religion...

The Meek and the Militant: Religion and Power Across the World by Paul N. Siegel (1986)     Contents, Preface, chapters 1-3, 9     C...

"Condescension, and thinking oneself no better, are the same. To adapt to the weakness of the oppressed is to affirm in it the pre-cond...

Boer, Roland. Marxist Criticism of the Bible . London; New York: T & T Clark International, 2003. xii, 265 pp. ISBN: 0826463274 0826463...

The two texts of primary interest are: An anti-clerical policy of Socialism (1903) http://www.marxists .org/archive/ luxemburg/ 1903/01/01...

I've recently discovered Roland Boer , who has written several books and articles on Marxism, politics, myth, and theology. He also has...

Written 19 January 2009 Johnson, Clarence Shole. Book review: Rosemary Cowan (2003), Cornel West: The Politics of Redemption , APA Newslett...

Jeff Nall, “Remembering the Humanism of Martin Luther King.” Toward Freedom, July 12, 2005. Feature article (alternative vers...

I'm not accustomed to sober, measured argumentation from Maoists, but the 21st century holds many surprises: Away With All Gods! Unchain...

In an earlier entry I criticized Alice Walker's airheaded New Age ideology. I won't pass judgment on her fiction, but her opinion pi...

Sorry to keep you waiting for my review of Rev. Wright's notorious speech at the National Press Club and the subsequent fallout. While s...

So much transpired in the few days following Bill Moyers’ interview with Jeremiah Wright, not to mention the fallout afterward. Wright spoke...

Bill Moyers' Interview with Reverend Jeremiah Wright , April 25, 2008. Resuming the narrative: Wright reviews his life and times--his so...

Wow! I have five days of media extravaganzas to catch up on. OK, I need to retrace my steps to Saturday 25 April, when Jeremiah Wright app...

Given Obama’s situation, he handled the Wright “scandal” well. Obama's speech on race tipped me in his favor, but only out of alarm at h...

I could not be more indifferent, nay, even contemptuous, of the Obama-Wright “scandal” as a political football. Since John Edwards dropped o...

Tavis Smiley interviews Chris Hedges original airdate April 15, 2008 "I don't believe in atheists" Foreign correspondent and i...

American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America , Chris Hedges, New York: The Free Press, 2006. Reviewed by Gregory Zucker L...