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Woodstock Comes to Washington
If any further proof were needed that the Woodstock generation has taken over the federal government, President…
A Peculiar Little Test
Every two or three years, at a small, elite New England university, I offer a graduate-level course…
Sorting Us Out
All persons of good will have reason to rejoice over the progress made in recent years in…
The Big Lie Continued
Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory by deborah lipstadt free press, 278 pages,…
A President in Process
It turns out, in retrospect, to have been a most ironically timed meeting. The White House Communications…
Psychology and the Abolition of Meaning
It is of course a commonplace nowadays to observe that we are living in the era of…
Why Churches Fail
A Generation of Seekers: The Spiritual Journeys of the Baby Boom Generation by wade clark roof harpercollins,…
Homesick in Miami
The Exile: Cuba in the Heart of Miami by david rieff simon & schuster, 220 pages, $21…
Religion’s Bad Press
“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?” “That depends a good…
War in the Classroom
Battleground: One Mother’s Crusade, The Religious Right, and the Struggle for Control of our Classrooms by stephen…
The Bible, Corrected
I Corinthians 6:9 Do not be deceived. Neither sexists, nor racists, nor ageists, nor looksists, nor ableists shall…
Poisoned Eros
Love and Friendship by allan bloom simon & schuster, 590 pages, $25 “Christianity gave Eros poison to…
Getting Real
A few months ago my stepdaughter turned eleven. On the verge of adolescence, Stella wonders daily about…
Population Policy: Ideology as Science
In recent years the poorer regions of the earth have been swept by a “population revolution” which,…
The Battle Hymn of the Republic, Corrected
(chanted to no tune in particular) BEFORE: by Julia Ward Howe Mine eyes have seen the glory…
