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One Cheer for Red One
Kevin Maher, chief film critic of the Times, pulls no punches in his review of the recently released Red One, starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Chris Evans, Lucy Liu,...
A Recipe for Getting Along with Family at Christmas
If you suspect that America is increasingly polarized, you are not alone. A Gallup Poll released in September of this year found that A record-high 80% of U.S. adults believe...
Mystic Alcohology
Distilled: A Natural History of Spiritsby rob desalle and ian tattersallyale university, 328 pages, $30 Distilled is part of a cottage industry in the publishing sphere that looks at...
The Erotic Theology of Mad Men
July is the month when fans of the award-winning series Mad Men , which follows the lives of 1960s Madison Avenue executives, eagerly await a new serving of high...
A Saint on Trial: Analyzing the Condemnation of Sir Thomas More
St. Thomas More’s star has risen and fallen in unusual ways over the years. Hailed in his lifetime as one of the great humanists of the age, he died...
Tobacco and the Soul
The current brouhaha over smoking has made everyone painfully aware of tobacco’s effects on the body, but it has also obscured a more profound reason for smoking’s popularity: its...
