People are calling Manti Te’o’s fake girlfriend, Lennay Kekua, a “catfish,” a term for a fake online identity presented as real—-often in the context of online romance. The term, it seems, comes from ” Catfish ” a 2010 documentary (which inspired a spin-off . . . . Continue Reading »
As David Mills notes below , Wendell Berry has recently claimed that opponents of same-sex marriage are necessarily and categorically rejecting a whole class of people. He tells us this kind of “categorical condemnation is the hatred of the mob” and as such is the worst kind of . . . . Continue Reading »
A new report from the Institute for American Values explores the complicated ways in which a child’s family structure, particularly the experience of parents’ divorce, can affect his or her religious practices as an adult. Coauthors Elizabeth Marquardt, Amy Ziettlow, and Charles E. . . . . Continue Reading »
Art Daily profiles Natalia Tsarkova, an Orthodox Christian who happens to be the Vatican’s official painter: Tsarkova arrived in Rome in the early 1990s and began doing portraits of Roman aristocrats, who introduced her at the Vatican where her background captured the attention of late pope . . . . Continue Reading »
Russell E. Saltzman on wishing our way to doomsday : I think we should blame President John F. Kennedy for National Geographic Channel’s Doomsday Preppers . It was his loose Cold War talk on nuclear survival that launched the doomsday survival business, I bet. He told Americans that if . . . . Continue Reading »
Wall Street recruiters receive their fill of curious applications, with some aspirants inflating GPA figures and test scores, and others presenting overwrought or bluffed accounts of job skills and experience. But one Wall Street hopeful drew praise and intrigue Monday after penning a cover . . . . Continue Reading »
If we want to shrink the income and achievement gaps, we need to grow the vocabularies of our children. So writes E.D. Hirsch, one of the brightest lights in the world of educational theory: Such correlations between vocabulary size and life chances are as firm as any correlations in educational . . . . Continue Reading »
Some of us may have missed it, but President Obama declared yesterday Religious Freedom Day in the United States. Here is an excerpt from the presidential proclamation on the White House’s website: Today, we also remember that religious liberty is not just an American right; it is a universal . . . . Continue Reading »
Life After Blue Walter Russell Mead, The American Interest The Myth of the Christian Nut Job Christine Jeske, Her.menutics Targets on Their Backs David Conway, Library of Law and Liberty Losing Our Religion: A Series on the “Nones” NPR Sarah Kliff’s Pro-Life History Michael J. . . . . Continue Reading »
“They eviscerated the book by making it an action movie for young people aged 15 to 25,” Christopher Tolkien says, explaining why the family declined to meet Peter Jackson. In what’s said to be his first interview , published in Le Monde , the 87-year-old executor of the . . . . Continue Reading »
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