The Atheist Recruiting Machine
Lauren Sandler is the author of Righteous: Dispatches from the Evangelical Youth Movement. She has contributed journalism and opinion about culture, politics, and religion for many publications, including The Atlantic, The New Republic, Slate, The Nation, Mother Jones, and The New York Times.
From subway ads to "Blasphemy Day," nonbelievers are proselytizing louder than ever. But as they draw more converts, are they in danger of losing their unique brand of faith?
Moore to Hannity: You Lie?
As a guest on Sean Hannity's show last night, Michael Moore presses the conservative host about his (so-called) church-going, challenging him to remember this past Sunday's sermon-with no luck.
How My Party Found God
Mike McCurry was press secretary to President Bill Clinton from 1995-98 and is now a Washington-based communications consultant and a graduate student at Wesley Theological Seminary.
Liberals have practiced secular politics since the 1960s, but with the ascent of Barack Obama, the left discovered it can actually keep the faith. President Clinton's former press secretary says amen to that.
The GOP Must Change or Die
Jeffrey Hart is professor emeritus of English at Dartmouth College. He wrote for the National Review for more than three decades, where he was senior editor. He wrote speeches for Ronald Reagan while he was governor of California, and for Richard Nixon.
Republicans must acknowledge the women's movement and accept science.
Palin's Pastor Problem
Gail Sheehy is an American writer and lecturer, most notable for her books on life and the life cycle. She is also a contributor to Vanity Fair, and can be found at gailsheehy.com
Deirdre English is the former editor of Mother Jones. She teaches at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley.
Rev. Thomas Muthee speaks in tongues and says Palin's political rise is part of God's grand plan
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
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