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Recognition Through Violence
Posted on July 22, 2012 | 1 CommentWithin a few hours of the tragedy in Aurora, Colorado, the film critic Roger Ebert made a provocative observation in a New York Times essay: I don’t know if James... -
We Need a Little Light
Posted on September 13, 2011 | 1 CommentWhat interesting parallels I’m having this week with the stories I wrote ten years ago as the Slate Diarist not long after 9/11. There was a lot of talk in... -
Ten Years After – My Slate Diaries in the wake of 9/11
Posted on September 10, 2011 | 1 CommentIn the days before everyone's grandmother had a blog, the Slate Diaries were one of the internet's greatest outlets for interesting writing from widely disparate voices. I was asked by Slate to be a weekly diarist a month before 9/11, and when I scheduled my week for early October, I couldn't have anticipated that America and the world would be in such a soul-searching and somber mood.
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God(dess) Bless Rachel Maddow
Posted on August 5, 2011 | 1 CommentI watched part of “The Rachel Maddow Show” Wednesday night as I was running on the treadmill. (Okay, okay, the treadmill is lame, I know. But at 108 degrees outside... -
AC360 digs into the dark world of “reparative therapy” in “The Sissy Boy Experiment”
Posted on June 8, 2011 | No CommentsHow hard is it to love a 5-year-old child unconditionally, or a child of any age for that matter? If you believe God created each of us, how do you... -
Towering Humanity: Turk Pipkin’s Building Hope
Posted on June 3, 2011 | 1 CommentDisabuse any inkling that Building Hope is cinematic broccoli. It’s a majestic and transformative entertainment and this documentary packs more emotional connectedness, stark naked compassion, unyielding gumption, and inspirational heft than a GooGooplex full of Hollywood fiction.
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Good Will, Good Faith, Good Grief
Posted on September 12, 2010 | 1 CommentGiven an understanding that politics is not much more than war without weapons (usually), it shouldn’t be surprising that there’s a lot of ill will involved. Still, it seems today... -
Requiem for Reality
Posted on August 23, 2010 | No CommentsEmerson said, “…wise men pierce this rotten diction and fasten words again to visible things.” It’s in his essay, “Nature,” and he was talking about the sacrifice of sacred truth... -
Mark Twain on the Interview
Posted on July 11, 2010 | No CommentsIn a newly discovered essay, Mark Twain takes down interviewers of all stripes. Take that O overpaid interrogators of contemporary American media. When the guy who quipped that Wagner’s music...