In Training, NYPD

January 19, 2011
NYPD cops-in-training recently were shown an instructive film, the Village Voice reports.  "The film is called The...

He's Not Heavy

January 18, 2011
"Now I will have to say that, if we don't have the same daddy, we're not brothers and sisters....

Heaven for Infiltrators

January 17, 2011
Ashley Makar writes at Tablet about Sudanese refugees in Israel. A clip: The Knesset’s information branch reports that...

Our Sense of Knowing Better

January 14, 2011
From Genevieve Yue's "That Old Time Religion" at Reverse Shot: In 1799, Étienne-Gaspard Robertson premiered the phantasmagoria, a moving...

Theology's Gay

January 14, 2011
Should we argue theology with anti-gay rights folks?

What's in a name?

January 13, 2011
Elissa Lerner: Of all the exciting things the Pope could be talking about this week (the vote in...

Sudans

January 12, 2011
Abby Ohlheiser: In the collective gasp that followed the shooting in Tucson on Saturday, the story of the ongoing...

Palin's 'Blood Libel'

January 12, 2011
Sarah Palin has a video out this morning that addresses the criticism she's received in the wake of...

He Takes Them Off

January 11, 2011
rom Jill Lepore, at The New York Times News Desk blog: No one knows why Jared Lee Loughner...

Scripture from Narnia

January 11, 2011
Elissa Lerner writes at The New Yorker Book Bench blog: When was the last time you read the Bible? According...

Masking Huck's Lesson

January 5, 2011
A new version of Huckleberry Finn has been issued; throughout, nigger is replaced with slave.  From The...

Ross Wants Your Snowflakes

January 3, 2011
Mary Valle: My favorite cheek-shaved, neck-bearded Catholic convert, Ross Douthat, weighs in today (sort of? His columns...

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