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Jen McCreight has a very smart take on the issue of a lack of ethnic diversity among...

That’s where the two thugs who attacked me are going, I found out today. I don’t know...

I still intend to write in more detail about my recent assault, but what’s most on...

John Heilemann might be my favorite political journalist these days, if for no other reason...

Michael Gerson has gone off the rails. Common wisdom holds that he’s one of the...

In 2004, I decided to begin to move away from my life in theatre to...

Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in Colorado, Ken Buck, made a little news today...

Ryan Lizza’s recent New Yorker piece on the aborted climate change legislation of John Kerry, Joe Lieberman, and...

For your reading pleasure, I present the first comment posted on a short and fairly...

I was at the RNC’s winter meeting in 2007, immediately following their electoral drubbing the...

I know I’m a little late to this, but I was reminded of Ross Douthat’s...

I’ve just read Nicholson Baker’s take on the first years of World War II, Human Smoke,...

This was such an important moment for me: my 8-month-old son meets his 96-year-old great-great-grandmother,...

Much to my surprise, I was part of a panel of daddy bloggers on NPR’s “Tell...

Over the past couple of days, I kept seeing this name pop up in tweets...

I was at a Burger King near my office (stop glaring, wife!) and they were...

Michael De Dora has written in a recent controversial piece that, in essence, questions the wisdom of...

I recently read Barack Obama’s Dreams from My Father, and it took a couple of weeks...

I am not reading a book. Washington, DC is shut down today, and besides doing some...

About halfway through Bill Bryson’s At Home: A Short History of Private Life, one can’t help...

Few religious thinkers have eased the consciences of spiritual liberals, anti-fundamentalist religious moderates, and functional...

Lisa Miller of Newsweek, it seems, has had it with us nonbelievers. In her latest column, she...

All photos in this post:  / CC BY 2.0 It is almost becoming a ritual in our...

Robert Wright, in his latest book The Evolution of God, promises up front that he will...

Ross Douthat writes in defense of the Yahweh concept, reminding we stuffy atheists that it’s not as...

My day was flat out ruined by a political ad. I’m very passionate about politics...

Is it time to pull the plug on Web publishing pioneer Salon.com? (Link) It seems...

Daycare teacher 1, a few weeks ago: “Toby’s being very aggressive with the other kids....

I do no research. Given that I’ve just written a book that revolves around two...

I’ve been kind of rolling my eyes at the series by Paul Miller at The...