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Angelina’s Shiny New Rack
Jolie’s preemptive strike against what might be called in manful terms a “clear and present danger” violates norms against women controlling their own bodies.
Daily Links: Today’s Soap Box
What promised land? What medical ethics? What radical Muslims? What orphans? A quick guide to righteous media this week.
Me and My Mat
Naturalized as an integral part of practice, the mass produced yoga mat is an illustrative example of niche commoditization and the way entrepreneurs savvily build microeconomies around emergent lifestyle trends.
The Danger of Winning
By Ann Neumann Is a revisionist history of abortion rights being used--by journalists, supporters, and lawyers--to curtail Supreme Court rulings on other rights like same sex marriage. Is "fear of the backlash" just a stubborn frame?
“The Bible” and the Commercial Beat
Don Jolly on the History Channel's sendup of the bible, "The Bible."
Schradle’s Links: God’s Wrath Edition
By Nathan Schradle What's going on in the world today that's evoked God's wrath? Lots of things, it turns out.
The Longest Night:
An Interview With Laurel Snyder
Laurel Snyder's children's book "The Longest Night" is a retelling of the story of Exodus from the perspective of one of the Israelite children living in Egypt.
