Monthly Archive: May 2014
Pope Francis Is Telling Catholics to Doubt the Church – That’s Good!
In his first piece at The Week, Kyle Cupp explains why Pope Francis is right to encourage doubt about God and the Church.
The Song Remains the Same
There was a shooting at UCSB today. Seven people were killed including the gunman. The gunmen left a video saying the killing was done over romantic rejection and he would know prove himself to...
The Santa Barbara Shooting
A horrific event at Burt Likko’s alma mater leaves him meditating on whether the modern age has somehow magnified and distorted the difficult-enough trials of youthful sexual frustration.
Not So Briefly On Aging, Arvydas Sabonis, And Being Sworn About
My wife and I took our children to the park. There was a newly poured concrete slab with a basketball hoop at one end. Nearby, a father and his son were eating sandwiches. On...
The Competency Fallacy: Everyone Wings It All the Time
Guardian blogger Oliver Burkeman summons his inner Onion writer and tells us that “Everyone is totally just winging it all the time.”
Blaming the Child for the Abuse
We tortured and imprisoned you as a child soldier. It’s time to pay up.
Weekend!
So we stood looking at the ceiling fan and wondered whether it’d be easier to change the lightbulbs or sell the house.
Democracy and Coercion
“So you get angry at being portrayed as a caricature, and your notion of dispelling that image is to say “Democracy is coercion”?
OK, let’s explore that.
Mount Rushmore – Children’s Author Editions
Hey! Something I know about! Which means I’ll probably get twice as many hate-comments. Don’t worry… I haven’t yet realized my dream of turning the “Fast and Furious” movies into a series of pop-up...
A Troublesome Truth about Jill Abramson’s Extremely Public Firing from the New York Times
The extra scrutiny the Times has received for firing a woman executive editor will probably make other organizations more reluctant to put women in such visible roles in the first place.
