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You Do You and I’ll Do Me (Unless You’re Ghengis Khan)
I was a little worried when The NY Times Magazine did away with “Riff”, a […]
Another Week Ends: Death Row Hymns, L’Arche Communion, Heres …
1. A nice change of pace this week, with not one but two stories of […]
A Snob By Any Other Name
The first time I suspected there might really be something between me and the woman […]
Another Week Ends: The Age of Forgiveness, Hollywood Denials, Good …
1. Turns out we’ve been writing quite a bit about memory and regret these past […]
Striving in Our Sleep, or Resting to Work Better?
Talk about grist for the mill! Did you see Eve Fairbanks’ riff in this past […]
The Flying Dutchman, Schadenfreude, and Tim Tebow
The scientist who yields anything to theology, however slight, is yielding to ignorance and false […]
Forgiving Conor McBride
Stop what you’re doing and go and read the story from this past Sunday’s NY […]
Another Week Ends: Monastic (Olympic) Masochism, Successful Childr …
1. As the Olympics wind down (and Morrissey gets his London back), we would do […]
Longing Machines and the Pinteresting World of Online Curation
Here’s a meta one for you. In the most recent issue of The NY Times […]
Another Week Ends: Spoiled Kids, Harvard Perfectionism, KKKlan Gra …
1. Over at The New Yorker, Elizabeth Kolbert surveyed the latest swath of parenting books, […]
A Boy and His Dog: When One-Way Love Meets Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Ready for a tearjerker? The NY Times Magazine article “Wonder Dog” could be just what […]
Rom Com Cliches, David Foster Wallace and the Fine Art of the (Ove …
It’s time for everybody’s favorite new innovation in criticism deflection: self-awareness! I’m referring to the […]
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