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How Should We Then Vote?
Campaign strategy calls for dividing voters into tidy groups, separated by demographics, each with its own demands. This national election has sliced and diced the American populace into multiple and...
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Why Melissa Harris-Perry is Out in Left Field. But She’s Also Right.
We have never invested as much in public education as we should have. We haven’t had a very collective notion of, these are our children. We have to break through our private idea that children belong...
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It’s Poetry Friday!
Betrayal I woke up on a sunny morning With a knife in my back, A knife in my back. A figurative knife that is, prefigured In the butter spreader, in the file Used against my nails, to slow their...
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Let’s Put Sex Back in the Closet
In our national conversation — at least the conversation as it takes place via sitcoms or as prompted by quotes given by stars in celebrity interviews — we’ve moved on from talking about...
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The Science Guy vs. The 6,000 Year Old Man
One of the big stories in this week’s news, if not in real life, featured a debate of sorts between Bill Nye the Science Guy and Ken Ham, Six-Day-Creationist-in-Chief. The event took place at Ken Ham’s...
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Coming to a Theater Near You: What Are Evangelicals So Afraid of?
In absorbing the chatter among evangelicals preceding the premier of the movie Noah, which opened on March 28th, I’ve been struck by how serious a matter the release of this film seems to be among...
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Annals of Pop Stardom: Miley Wins, Miley Loses
When the History of Pop Star as Performance Artist is written (and it will be written someday, by a desperate PhD candidate in search of a dissertation topic), one person will go down as the greatest,...
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It’s Memorial Day in America
Originally posted in May 2013 Memorial Day in this country is a muted version of the 4th of July holiday. Less pomp and more circumstance. The parades are smaller, the bands are fewer, the ceremony is...
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This Week in Sorrow
I miss the days of ordinary war. Of news from the front via letters or the tiny print of newspapers, or not at all. Just silence. Silence from the front, and silence at home. I miss the days when home...
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Hot Takes & Click Bait: 50 Shades of Grey
So apparently the Internet lends itself to quick impressions, immediate reactions, and poorly-considered diatribes. Official digital media outlets — plus roughly a couple million free-wheeling bloggers...
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