Daily Links: Today's Soap BoxApril 25, 2013What promised land? What medical ethics? What radical Muslims? What orphans? A quick guide to righteous media this week.
Getting There Too Quickly:Aldous Huxley and MescalineJanuary 2, 2012By Peter Bebergal Between his 1932 vision of a sterile dystopia in Brave New World and the 1962 novel Island...
I'll Never Grow So Old Again: Ditching the Drugs But Still Looking for the TranscendenceOctober 10, 2011An exclusive excerpt from Peter Bebergal's Too Much To Dream: A Psychedelic American Boyhood, published last week. Bebergal...
A Lexicon of Morality: Before Nature and Magic Went Separate WaysSeptember 20, 2011A review of Gregory McNamee's translation of On the Nature of Animals (Trinity University Press, 192 pp., July 2011). By...
Feature A Questionable Purpose, A Test of WordsJune 26, 2011Part of The Revealer’s series on the John Jay report, “The Causes and Context of Sexual Abuse...
Feature Pathologizing the Sexual RevolutionJune 7, 2011Part of The Revealer’s series on the John Jay report, “The Causes and Context of Sexual Abuse of...
Whole Lotta TestosteroneJune 3, 2011by Mary Valle I don’t think that men and women are the same. I think we have a lot in...
Feature Failure to Deliver: Predictions that did not predict and a case-closing report that did not close the caseMay 26, 2011Part of The Revealer's series on the John Jay report, The Causes and Context of Sexual Abuse of...
Keeping the Patriarchy: Sex as Dominance in the Catholic ChurchMay 24, 2011by Amanda Marcotte To quickly summarize a recently- released, five-year study funded by the Catholic Church on the priest sex...
Tripping on Science: The Psychedelic Community Contests TermsDecember 1, 2010by Peter Bebergal Despite their common, and mostly fringe area of concern, the psychedelic subculture -- whose kaleidoscopic reflection includes...
Feature Kosher EnoughOctober 2, 2010By Peter Bebergal In April 2009, at the peak of the Swine Flu scare, Deputy Health Minister Yakov Litzman...
Normal predicaments of human divinityMarch 4, 2010Ann Neumann: Haaretz interviews Revealer contributing editor Scott Korb about his new book, “Life in Year One: What the...
Stoned Out of Their Ivory TowerFebruary 18, 201018 February 2010 By Peter Bebergal In 1964, a year after he was fired from Harvard University, Timothy Leary, together...
Feature 2007 Favorite BooksNovember 22, 2007 By Jeff Sharlet The British New Statesman asked me to contribute to their round-up of best books of the year....
Expose YourselfMay 3, 2006The Revealer seeks new revelators. We've been weaned off the foundation teat, and we're all busy trying to feed...
Feature All That I Have Is YoursNovember 23, 2005The scars of a Christian inheritance. (An excerpt from an essay in the December, 2005 issue of Harper’s, by...
Review Trust vs. Love: A Study of Faith-Based InitiativesJune 19, 200519 June 2005 Saving America? Faith-Based Services and the Future of Civil Society / By Robert Wuthnow reviewed by Scott...
Next Year, Same PlaceDecember 23, 2004Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and Joyous Federal Non-Work Days to all! The Revealer will be taking its first formal publishing...
Review Randall Sullivan's The Miracle Detective: An Investigation of Holy VisionsSeptember 17, 2004Reviewed by Scott Korb It’s become fairly commonplace among Christians and writers concerned with Christian mysteries to maintain that...
Real Live PreacherMay 10, 2004Scott M. Korb reviews a blog of freaky belief that’s more-and-more common. He fancies himself something of a freak, a...