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Blog Entries by Paul Stoller from 03/2012

The World According to Rick

| Posted 03.02.2012 | Politics
Read More: Political News, Spanish Inquisition, Rick Santorum, Anthropology, Religion and Politics, Climate Change, Worldview, GOP Candidates, Politics News

Are we ready to recede into the illusory comforts of Rick's 15th-century world? Are we ready to go "back to the future"?

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White House of the Blues

| Posted 03.05.2012 | Huffington Post
Read More: The Blues, Michelle Obama, Mick Jagger, Chicago, President Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Buddy Guy, Political Dysfunction, B.B. King, The White House, The Human Condition, Obamas, White House, Chicago Blues, Blues, Barack Obama, Huffington Post News

The magic of The Blues worked itself way into the White House, providing a moment of communitas in Washington, D.C., a moment of unexpected unity in our divided society.

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Joseph Kony and the Other Africa

| Posted 03.19.2012 | Media
Read More: Internet, Lord's Resistance Army, Mali, Niger, Africa, Anthropology, Media News, Joseph Kony, Invisible Children, Uganda, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Media News

So Africa is not a country and Africans don't speak "African." What about the most pernicious stereotype -- that in the face of ongoing civil war and unending famine, "Africans" are powerless and need our help?

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Religion and Faith-Full Politics

| Posted 03.23.2012 | Religion
Read More: Abortion, Free Markets, Religion, Social Class Divisions, Occupy Wall Street, Rick Santorum, Contraception, Poliical News, GOP Candidates, Religion and Politics, Religion News

Religion defines spaces of good and evil, and helps us to deal with the absurdity of human pain and suffering. Is it any wonder that people devote so much energy to religious practices?

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