Two weeks ago we listed the best magazine covers of the decade. This week I present the best (or at least a close contender) for each decade from 1920 to today: The New Yorker (1926) Ever since their launch in 1925, The New Yorker has set the standard for magazine cover art. Boys Life (1931) This . . . . Continue Reading »
It’s confusing yet strangely gratifying all at the same time. We live in a culture that is moving further and further from the exclusive claims of Christianity yet almost equally—and inconsistently—holds select passages in the Bible in high regard. They hold forth as though they . . . . Continue Reading »
The arrogance and hubris of the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine has grown—one would not have thought it possible—even more pronounced. We Californians, who are borrowing to pay for their high salaries and other fat cat ways, even though California has become Greece . . . . Continue Reading »
One of the rules for our small town’s park reads: “Persons engaging in horseplay and/or using foul language without regard for the safety of others will be expelled from the park.” It’s wonderful to find a town that recognizes profanity as dangerous. . . . . Continue Reading »
Having lived in SF at the height of the AIDS catastrophe, and seen vividly and at first hand and very close up in volunteer activities the devastation HIV causes, this story shatters my heart. One in five gay and bisexual men living in American cities are infected with HIV, with an overall infection . . . . Continue Reading »
I was enjoying the sharp and angular writing at Taki’s Magazine, an online journal that offers delicious little appetizers, or as the website puts it “Cocktails, Countesses & Mental Caviar”. Yes, caviar—tasty and salty. In a fun, rambling piece about . . . well, about lots . . . . Continue Reading »
Classics scholar and translator Sarah Ruden explains what she learned when reading St. Paul against the classics . For example, “there’s a single civilization, and it moves toward greater idealism . . . . You have all these philosophies arising from the ancient world as educated people . . . . Continue Reading »
During my recent anti-euthanasia national tour of Australia, I was brought to Perth, the capital of Western Australia, because opponents expected a legalization bill to come up for a vote. I met some state MPs, gave a speech to a good size crowd, and was very encouraged by the energetic . . . . Continue Reading »
Now up on “On the Square”: Joseph Knippenberg’s Moderating Patriotism , examining the differences between the conservative pairing of God and country and what he calls the “liberal cosmopolitan” pairing of universal empathy and human rights. It’s a kind of . . . . Continue Reading »
As promised, I have an extended article on the DeGette/Castle/Specter—two of three of which have been booted from their jobs already by voters—bills in Congress that would not only set Obama’s ESCR funding policy in statutory concrete, but also surreptitiously fund human cloning . . . . Continue Reading »
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