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February 10, 2005: Chilling Parallels: Christian and Islamic Fundamentalism  

February 17, 2005: The Real Meaning of Sodomy 

March 10, 2005: Mad Max Meets Jesus Christ

March 24, 2005: A Frozen Embryo Responds to Its Subpoena

April 7, 2006: Karma, Character, and America's Destiny

May 19, 2005: Why Not Democracy in the Workplace?

June 9, 2005: Liberals: Take Back the Flag

June 16, 2005: God is not a Scientific Hypothesis

June 30, 2005: The Culture War Come to Moscow  

June 23, 2005: We Are All Liberals

July 7, 2005: Buddhist Nationalism and Religious Violence

August 8, 2005: Historical Revisionism at Moscow's Trinity Festival

August 25, 2005: What Do You Know? Anti-Intellectualism and America's Future  

September 22, 2005: Katrina as the Wrath of God  

October 15, 2005: Happy Birthday John Adams

October 27, 2005: Brakes Applied to Hindu Religious Nationalism

November 3, 2005: Kidnapping Texts: from Proverbs to the Neo-Confederates

November 17: Convergence not Conversion: Religious Unity in India 

December 1, 2005: The Deceptions of War: The Cooking of Intelligence on Iraq 

December 29, 2005: The Christmas Story and Other Redeeming Myths

January 12, 2006: Gandhi, King, and Thoreau: Three Principles of Civil Disobedience

February 1, 2006: A Woman's Right to Choose Hangs in the Balance

February 9, 2006: The Many Sins of New St. Andrews College

February 23, 2006: Non-Violence as Civic Virtue

March 16, 2006: The Wonder That Was--and Still Is--India  Short Version here

March 30, 2006: Filling Saddam's Shoes: Three Disastrous Years in Iraq

April 6, 2006: The Gospel of Weak Belief

April 27, 2006: Reagan Can't Save the Republicans

May 11, 1006: State Sanctioned Barbarism: Abolishing the Death Penalty
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June 15, 2006: The Brutality Connection: Abu Ghraib and America's Prisons
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June 29, 2006: Is the Gap so Great between Retro Red and Metro Blue?
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June 6, 2006: "Happy Hour" Is Not What Aristotle Had in Mind
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June 20, 2006: "Bring Them On!" Al-Zarqawi Heeds Bush's Call  (PDF File)

June 27, 2006: Good King Now, but Bad King Later? Bhutan, Nepal, and Democracy
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July 4, 2006: Thank Adams and Jefferson for 230 Years without Religious Conflict
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July 11, 2006: Long Live the Braceros: Essential Guest Workers not Felons
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July 18, 2006: CIA Torture in Vietnam, Latin America, and Iraq, Part I
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July 25, 2006: CIA Torture, Part II  (PDF File)

July 27, 2006: Was Gandhi a Tantric or Was his Ashram just a Massage Parlor?

August 1, 2006: Historical Revisionism at Moscow's Trinity Festival  (PDF File)

August 15, 2006: Iraq: One Step Forward; Three Steps Back (PDF File)

August 31, 2006: Vietnam, Iraq, and Lebanon: Superpower Overkill Backfires (PDF File)

September 14, 2006: Un-Declaring the War on Terror (PDF File)

September 19, 2006: The Woman Who Drew the Boundaries of Iraq (PDF File)

September 26, 2006: You're Doing a Heckuva Job on the Economy, Bushie! (PDF File)

September 28, 2006: Moscow School Among the Top 40 Bible Colleges (PDF File)

October 3, 2006: Happy 137th Birthday, Gandhi!  (PDF File)

October 12, 2006: Afghanistan as Narcostan as well as Jihadistan (PDF File)

November 2, 2006: What Part of Equality Don't You Understand? (PDF File available)

December 7, 2006: Their Souls Live on the Cemetery of Books (PDF File)

December 21, 2006: Whistleblowers Need More Protection at the University of Idaho (PDF File)

January 4, 2007: Danish Social Democracy and "The Third Way"  (PDF File)

February 22, 2007: Two Presidents Named George and the Golden Rule (PDF File available)

March 1, 2007: The Deceptions of War Reconfirmed  (PDF File available)

March 20, 2007: The Need for Liberation Theology is Greater than ever (PDF File)

March 27, 2007: Tolerance for Islam in the Early American Republic (PDF File)

April 3, 2007: Woman, Bonobos, and Peace  (PDF File)

April 10, 2007: Mary Magdalene: Apostle to the Apostles (PDF File)

April 17, 2007: What Ever Happened to the Last Judgment? (PDF file)

April 24, 2007: America's Moral Responsibility for Global Warming (PDF File)

May 24, 2007:  The Passing of an Ugly Giant of the Religious Right (PDF File)

June 14, 2007: God is Dead (Again!): Secular Fundamentalists Fight Back  PDF  JPEG

June 28 2007: King of Morocco Takes His Country in a New Direction  JPEG PDF

July 12, 2007: The Global Peace Index: Norway #1; USA #96  JPEG PDF

August 9, 2007: Moscow's Trinity Festival Features Fraudulent Calvinists and Questionable Trinitarians   PDF

August 23, 2007: Muslim Democrats and Republicans Have Ignorant Idaho Detractors PDF

September 6, 2007: Soles Hundreds of Feet Thick: Visualizing Economic Inequality in America PDF

September 20, 2007: Here's to Good Royalty: A Defense of Constitutional Monarchy PDF

October 4, 2007: Celebrating our Muslim Neighbors by Acknowledging Their Cultural Heritage PDF

October 10, 2007: A Denmark Retrospective: Fond Memories for Me and 41 Years of Socio-Economic Progress for the Danes PDF  JPEG

October 25, 2007: The 454th Anniversary of the Burning of Michael Servetus  PDF

December 20: Strange Bedfellows: Libertarians, Christians, and Biblical Bolsheviks JPEG

March 6, 2008: "Don't Tread on Me": Americans Rise Up Against Alien Invaders

June 19, 2008: Our Troops Deserve Better When They Come Home PDF

July 10, 2008: Denmark Leads the World in Wind Power PDF

August 7, 2008: Barack Obama is Right about the Surge PDF

August 14, 2008: Headscarves, Secularism, and Religious Freedom PDF

August 21 2008: Please Register Here to Protest, but We Might Arrest You if You Do  PDF

August 28, 2008: Krishna and Christ: Hindu and Christian Saviors PDF