Fundamentalism

The upside to Hezbollah

I know Harper’s is on a mission to destroy Christianity or something, but remember what a great and interesting magazine it used to be, before it began its bizarre jihad?


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This should be good for another Pulitzer

I’ve been on a few beaches this summer. I plan to be on a few more. And, with my unhealthy obsession with fashion, I have analyzed and overanalyzed the latest swimsuit trends. So while I’m glad that The Washington Post‘s Pulitzer prize-winning fashion reporter Robin Givhan turned her critical eye to swimwear, I can’t say I’m sure she’s hit on something sweeping the nation’s sandy areas. I can’t say the nation’s beaches are beset by overly modest women.


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Muddled millennial musings

This is a few days late, but we need to look at that Los Angeles Times “End Times” story. I’m not sure if the problem with the story is that it is disorganized or that the reporter just doesn’t get the topic about which he is writing.


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Harpo America

Forgive my snarkiness, but stories about baby names are just dumb. I have particular disdain for stories on those unusual names that suddenly become popular. First, it ruins the offbeat quality of those names, and second, who cares? Anybody with an Internet connection can look up the popularity of a name.


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The alleged rise of the religious left

Good political reporters do their best to cover both ends of the political spectrum. With American politics nicely divided into “liberal” and “conservative” camps — at least on the surface — this is easy. So with the “sudden” emergence of the powerful “religious right” in the 2004 presidential election, articles on the “religious left” in American politics have been on the to-do list for political and religion reporters.


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