Новости за 04.12.2017

In the six years since my father died, I’ve visited the cemetery where his ashes are interred exactly twice—the second time only because of the Jewish tradition of unveiling, where the initial graveside funeral service is followed within a year by a  ceremony to uncover and dedicate the headstone. It’s not that returning would be too difficult. It’s more like the reverse: I fear an inability to perform the sadness and solemnity the pilgrimage seems to require. I miss my dad, but the cemetery,... Читать дальше...

The case Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission isn’t really about cake. It is, if you believe plaintiff Jack Phillips and his attorneys from the Alliance Defending Freedom, about conscience and free creative expression. On Tuesday, that’s the argument they’ll air before the U.S. Supreme Court, in hopes of convincing the justices that Phillips should be exempt from a Lakewood, Colorado anti-discrimination ordinance. The ordinance prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation... Читать дальше...

It is tricky being a roughly centrist former politician in the post-normal West. No one knows this better than David Miliband, who was once Britain’s foreign secretary and is now the head of the International Rescue Committee, a New York-based NGO that provides relief to refugees and resettles displaced people. I visited Miliband at his offices there, because he has just published his first book about the refugee crisis, Rescue: Refugees and the Political Crisis of Our Time. The book is a short argument against anti-refugee sentiment... Читать дальше...