I’ve heard so many Americans complain about soccer being boring. I’ve also heard those people complain that soccer players flop too much. Flopping, especially in the penalty area, might be the cure for boring soccer. Continue Reading »
A century later, why does Chaplin still matter?
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, AV Club
Faking Galileo
Massimo Mazzotti, Los Angeles Review of Books
American Idol
James T. Keane, America
Consider the Squirrel
Jamie Allen, Oxford American
E.B.
Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig
Hobby Lobby’s a pretty narrow decision, but an important win for religious freedom. Continue Reading »
The Vatican’s upcoming meeting on family life has spurred broad speculation about a new openness to divorced and remarried Catholics. Now commentators are searching a newly issued working document, the Instrumentum Laboris, for clues about the meeting’s direction. Continue Reading »
Gifts of $300 to Homeless Are Reduced to a Lunch
Kirk Semple, The New York Times
Lost Causes
Jesse Dukes, Virginia Quarterly Review
Nun with colorful history, New Mexico ties nominated for sainthood
Anne Constable, Santa Fe New Mexican
The Supreme Court Strikes Down Massachusetts’s Abortion Clinic Buffer Zone Law
Abby Ohlheiser, The Wire
Why I Traveled the World Hunting for Mutant Bugs
Cornelia Hesse-Honegger, Nautilus
We shouldn’t give up on the idea of international religious freedom, but we may need to adopt somewhat modest goals and avoid universal assumptions. Continue Reading »
I went undercover to find out why people do CrossFit
Nico Lang, The Daily Dot
Grace Happens
Aaron Canipe, The Morning News
The Lost Days of El Texano
Katy Vine, Texas Monthly
If A Jewish Girl Falls Into The East River
Cameron Dezen Hammon, Killing the Buddha
AP: Parts Of Irish ‘Mass Graves’ Story Exaggerated By Media
Scott Neuman, NPR
On a recent visit to my sister’s house, I asked my two-year-old niece if she wanted to watch the movie Frozen. I figured it was time to bite the bullet and watch what some have hailed as the greatest movie of the 21st century. I am now unashamedly a fan. Whereas I initially introduced the topic into conversation with a preamble about how my niece had foisted the film upon me, I’ve since begun admitting that the opposite is closer to the truth. I think she may have even wandered off after a few minutes. Continue Reading »
Perhaps the politicization of the IRS was inevitable. In any event, the agency is now completely out of control and has become an active threat to the integrity of our political system and the liberty and privacy of the American people. Continue Reading »
My Train-Hopping Odyssey Through the American West
Ted Conover, Outside
Sleazy, Bloody and Surprisingly Smart: In Defense of True Crime
Laura Miller, Salon
Vatican Cricket Team to Go Head-to-Head with Anglican Rivals on UK Tour
John Hooper, The Guardian
The Vanishing Jews of Antiquity
Adele Reinhartz, Marginalia
Sundance’s Rectify, Perhaps the Most Quiet Drama on TV, Is Truly Christian Art
Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture
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