Alejandro Moreiras

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Feb 13, 2018, 7:02 PM

The President is not a Believer

“Fighting for the right to fight the right fight for the right.” -Chad Mitchell Trio In the United States, rightwing and leftwing politics are no longer ideological. Few voters are self-identifying Keynesians or Galbraithists anymore or believe like Milton Friedman...

Jan 12, 2018, 10:39 PM

Dark Truth about Dark Money: A rampant bias against conservatives and conservatism

In Jane Mayer’s recent book, Dark Money, we are introduced to Dr. Fred Schwarz, Australian founder of the Christian Anti-Communism Crusade, and are told that he is "a melodramatically anti-Communist physician from Australia who had converted to Christianity from Judaism,...

Jan 8, 2018, 12:52 AM

Unity is Tyranny

Professor Yeshayahu Leibovitz explains that the Tower of Babel narrative shows God’s mercy in dispersing man to create difference: “In a world that is of one language and a common speech, man is a complete slave because there is...

Jan 1, 2018, 9:59 AM

Cain, Father to us all

Cain kills Abel. Of this, we can be sure. But, why? Tradition answers: jealousy. Cain bemoans, “Am I my brother’s keeper?” Another surety is that translation takes its source on a different path. In Midrash Tanhuma, the rabbis notice the use...

Dec 26, 2017, 11:01 AM

A Pyrrhic Victory for the Palestinian Authority

On December 6, 2017, America formally recognized Jerusalem as the capital of the State of Israel and announced plans to move its Tel Aviv embassy to the City of Gold. On Christmas Eve, Guatemala followed suit and there are...

Dec 19, 2017, 5:03 AM

Progressives are Chicken

Only time will tell if the Steve Bannon-propelled victory for Donald Trump in 2016 was a fluke. But one thing is clear: last Tuesday it was not that Doug Jones won in The Yellowhammer State, it was that Roy...

Dec 12, 2017, 4:27 PM

Roy Moore, the Profane…

This post does not discuss the allegations of sexual misconduct against Roy Moore. What it does focus on are his political, or, according to him, Constitutional, arguments for why the United States is, from its founding, a nation under...

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About Me

Alejandro Moreiras is a Ph.D. graduate student in Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He holds an M.A. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a B.A. from Hampshire College with a Five College Certificate in Middle Eastern Studies.