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Reason April 2001 Charles Paul Freund |
Artifact: Shear Anxiety Haircut cops in Kabul rounded up a few dozen of the city's barbers in January, charging them with turning men into Leonardo DiCaprio wannabes. That's a serious matter in Afghanistan, because its extremist religious rulers, the Taliban, regard most foreign haircuts as "anti-Islamic"... |
Salon.com March 22, 2001 Suzy Hansen |
Our wolves in uniform A novelist tells how U.S. sailors take Thai sex tours on the taxpayer's dime, and the Christian right cries foul. |
Salon.com March 22, 2001 Carina Chocano |
Save the children, or the Buddhas get it Afghanistan's roving ambassador tries to explain why the Taliban destroyed the Buddhas of Bamiyan, which were considered the greatest remaining examples of third and fifth century Greco-Indian art in the world. |
Salon.com March 13, 2001 Arianna Huffington |
It's not about church and state Two words for the Bible-thumpers and lefties who are trashing Bush's faith-based initiative: Alcoholics Anonymous... |
Salon.com February 28, 2001 Larry Arnhart |
Assault on evolution The religious right takes its best scientific shot at Darwin with "intelligent design" theory... |
Salon.com February 26, 2001 Stephen Prothero |
Boomer Buddhism American converts are taking a 2,500-year-old faith and making it over in their own image -- self-absorbed... |
Salon.com February 20, 2001 Jeff Sypeck |
When The Saints Go Up For Auction A one-man crusade against online relic sales is met with unholy indifference... |
Salon.com February 17, 2001 Laura Miller |
The new victimology More on the Brooklyn Museum of Art's display of "Yo Mama's Last Supper." The Catholic League depicts critics as prejudiced and their ideas as hate crimes. |
Salon.com February 16, 2001 Amy Reiter |
New York's bully in chief meets his match "Yo Mama" artist Renee Cox won't let adulterer Rudy Giuliani use Catholicism to beat her up. |
Salon.com February 7, 2001 Laura Miller |
King David was a nebbish And Exodus never happened and the walls of Jericho did not come a-tumbling down. How archaeologists are shaking Israel to its biblical foundations... |
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