Author: Edmund D. Cohen
Edmund D. Cohen is the author of The Mind of the Bible Believer (Prometheus Books).
Harold Camping and the Second Stillborn Apocalypse
Radio evangelist Harold Camping, who predicted that the Second Coming would occur in September 1994, is now positive it will take place on May 21, 2011. Sixteen years ago—in the Winter 1994/95 issue of Free Inquiry—I reported on that earlier apocalyptic date-setting episode (read that article here) What follows is an update that takes the …
It’s That Dysfunctional ‘Family’ Again
C Street:The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy, by Jeff Sharlet (New York: Little, Brown and Co., 2010, ISBN 978-0-316-09107-7) 352 pp. Cloth $26.99. C Street is the continuation of The Family:The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power (reviewed in FI, February/March 2010). Soon after The Family came out, there were sensational subsequent developments. …
National Character, Collective Guilt, and Original Sin—The Goldhagen Controversy
Early in 1996, a young Harvard Government and Social Studies teacher published his dissertation. Hitler’s Willing Executioners by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen’ was touted as a groundbreaking work, shedding startling new light on the role of ordinary Germans in the mass murder of the Jews of Europe’ It received ecstatically favorable initial reviews. The cover kudos …