Jeff is the Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at Rice University, which isn’t the only thing that makes him way, way cool. His new book, Mutants and Mystics, will be featured on Dreamland shortly. To read his mind-expanding article, click here.
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This seems quite well worked out, and the Frank Edwards broadcast is quite interesting. We need more researchers who delve as deeply as Anthony Braglia. To read his blog on Einstein and listen to the Frank Edwards broadcast, click here.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws6AAhTw7RA&sns=em
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As a political moderate, I’m careful about movements and protests. The Tea Party was briefly interesting to me, but then it was co-opted by corporate interests who want to use it to destroy governmental regulatory authority. We need balanced, effective regulation, not no regulation, so I saw that movement for what it was and went the other way. Now, this new movement has been portrayed on Fox News and CNN as a bunch of extremists. When I see their stories about it, I see scruffy looking people with weird signs. But here, from the Atlantic, is a very different picture–taken by people as ordinary as the perfectly clean and normal looking protestors. I’ve got a feeling that that when they say they’re the 99%, they’re telling the truth.read more