Rachel and Harmony Korine We can get as close as we want so long as we maintain critical distance. This philosophy, primitively grasped, guides the four young women in Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers , who skip through frame after frame of booze, bongs, and omnipresent breasts only to . . . . Continue Reading »
[caption id=”attachment_60786” align=”alignnone” width=”510”] Patriarch Athenagoras & Pope Paul VI (1965) / Patriarch Bartholomew & Pope Francis (2013)[/caption] As if Part 1 wasn’t impressive enough. . . . . Continue Reading »
at Slate: ...It turns out I was not—am not—alone. A March 2012 Purdue University study suggests that between 18 and 26 percent of adoptive mothers struggle with post-adoption depression, brought on by extreme fatigue, unrealistic expectations of parenthood or a lack of community support. . . . . Continue Reading »
Academy-Award-winning actor Jeremy Irons raised questions about same-sex marriage in an interview yesterday with HuffPostLive. “Could a father not marry his son?” asked Irons. “Well, there are laws against incest,” said the host. “It’s not incest between . . . . Continue Reading »
Well I certainly would have had more time to watch pro wrestling. Did the sheer number of debates help the joke candidates who had no hope of winning the presidential election. I looked at the Real Clear Politics polling average for Iowa and looked at the debate schedule. . . . . Continue Reading »
Thanks to the generosity of the First Things editorial staff, today is the debut of my biweekly On The Square column. It is on the Republican party and the lower middle-class. . . . . Continue Reading »
reports: Children are going through puberty at an increasingly early age, and the changes to their bodies are also affecting their mental health, new research says. Biological changes are happening earlier in children around the world - in 1860, the average age for European girls to develop breasts . . . . Continue Reading »
reports: Nearly one in five births to U.S. teens ages 15-19 is not a first child, says a federal report out today. Of the 365,000 teens who gave birth in 2010, almost 67,000 (18.3%) have had at least one child before, according to the report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. . . . . Continue Reading »
A new play written by a Russian Orthodox priest depicts Harry Potter discovering he has been baptized and then battling Voldemort with the help of Saint Cyprianus : Harry rushes to see Dumbledore, who tells him to find “the one who created everything”, as he’s the only power that can . . . . Continue Reading »
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