Now that baseball season has started, what I need from you are scouting reports. What are the developments, prospects, promising new players, and issues for your favorite team? It looks like Philadelphia is playing a hand with four aces (maybe five aces, but then the
Archaeologists have discovered some 70 little books with lead pages that may be the earliest Christian texts, dating from shortly after the time of Christ. Interestingly, they seem to have been made by Jewish Christians–being written in ancient Hebrew, depicting both a Menorah
A Washington Post food writer, Andreas Viestad, discusses the Italian futurist artist Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, who tried to carry his aesthetic into food with his 1932 Futurist Cookbook. Marinetti was the leader of the Italian futurists, a poet and demagogue closely associated with the
Michael Gerson tells about China’s inroads into Africa and its bigger plans: The skyline of this city — what little there is of it — is a Chinese creation. Chinese money built the Parliament building. A $100 million, Chinese-funded hotel and conference center is rising.
69 hours. And to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the King James Version, the Globe Theatre in London–an authentic recreation of Shakespeare’s playhouse–will read it straight through. Shakespeares Globe Theatre in London has entitled its 2011 season “The Word is God” and will mark the
The liberal organization Media Matters used to just try to refute stories on Fox News. But now it is changing tactics: In an interview and a 2010 planning memo shared with POLITICO, Brock listed the fronts on which Media Matters — which he said is
Harold Camping isn’t the only one forecasting the end of the world. So are many Muslims, including apparently the rulers of Iran, who are interpreting the uprisings in the Middle East as a sign that the Mahdi–the messianic successor of the prophet Muhammed–will soon return
President Obama explained America’s military involvement in Libya in a speech last night: Defending the first war launched on his watch, President Barack Obama declared Monday night that the United States intervened in Libya to prevent a slaughter of civilians that would have stained the
And in Bible translations, no less: PETA, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, is calling for a more animal-friendly update to the Bible. The group is asking translators of the New International Version (NIV) to remove what it calls “speciesist” language and
Anthony Esolen names a common malady: When my daughter was young, she would often be asked, not usually by fellow homeschoolers, why she kept reading The Lord of the Rings. I told her to reply, “Because I want to know what’s going on in the
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