Mollie Hemingway

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Hitler and the War on Christmas

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I just disembarked from my first cruise and I’m in lovely Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. After a week in gently (or not-so-gently) rolling waters, I’m pretty happy to be on dry land. It was great to be out of communication for a week, but I missed my newspapers. So while I sit here waiting for my flight, I’m devouringtThis weekend’s Wall Street Journal, which included some fantastic articles. But one article, while terribly fascinating, had some holes.


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Pod People: For how many did Jesus die?

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For this week’s Crossroads podcast, I spoke with host Todd Wilken about media coverage of changes to the Roman Catholic liturgy. One of the things I keep reflecting on, and I know we shouldn’t praise that which should be done, is that I really do think the level of coverage was a good thing. So often we see major issues in the lives of religious adherents that are completely under the radar of many in the media.


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Mocking unfaithful Heathens

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The Village Voice is getting a bit of notice for a recent feature going after Republican New York City Councilman Dan Halloran. That the Village Voice might take issue with a Republican city councilman is not surprising. But one of its angles of attacks is. To see what I mean, let’s begin with the headline:


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Transmasculine punkers are the new Judaism

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Not too long ago, when the New York Times Sunday Magazine ran a supportive profile of a sex-positive sex-ed teacher, Rod Dreher wrote about the magazine’s obsession “with sex and sexuality, and of course always, always, always from a progressive point of view.” He listed some of the “sexual-liberationist” stories they’d done this year.


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Moroccan moderates, skip the details

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A few days ago, voters went to the polls in Morocco to elect a parliament. In Egypt, voters are going into their second day of high-turnout elections. The Moroccan election is part of a governmental reform process initiated by the king. It includes greater power for elected officials and a decentralization of authority.


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Do they think Catholics are stupid?

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I know we’ve seen a lot of bad media coverage of the changes to the wording of the Roman Catholic liturgy in recent weeks. But could we pause for a moment to just note how awesome it is that we’re seeing coverage of this in the first place?


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