From Andrew David, Managing Editor. I’ve started my wife on the first season of The Wire. If you recall, there’s an episode where, after a mild bit of provocation, a white detective on the Baltimore police force pistol-whips a young black kid. When the detective’s commanding officer, a black man, arrives on the scene, he […]
As many TOJ readers know, this October saw the release of Marilynne Robinson’s latest novel, Lila. This was cause for great rejoicing among her many fans and a chance for those who can’t see the genius of her work to point that out again. As an unapologetic fan I’ve already finished the novel and was […]
Each Friday we compile a list of interesting links and articles our editors find from across the web. Here’s what’s catching our eye this week. The Slenderman killings covered at the Verge: In recent days, the soul-searching brought on by senseless violence coalesced around the creepypasta community. Did the creepypasta community convince the girls that […]
Each Friday we compile a list of interesting links and articles our editors find from across the web. Here’s what’s catching our eye this week. An interesting presentation on the state of the internet and privacy concerns: A few weeks ago, the sociologist Janet Vertesi gave a talk about her efforts to keep Facebook from […]
Each Friday we compile a list of interesting links and articles our editors find from across the web. Here’s what’s catching our eye this week. Gabriel García Marquez dies at 87. vMagical realism, he said, sprang from Latin America’s history of vicious dictators and romantic revolutionaries, of long years of hunger, illness and violence. In accepting […]
Each Friday we compile a list of interesting links and articles our editors find from across the web. Here’s what’s catching our eye this week. Grantland explains what’s at stake behind the Northwestern football unionizing: Last week, the Chicago office of the National Labor Relations Board ruled that Northwestern football players are employees of the […]
Our Praxis editor reviews a new book by John Sexton, Baseball as a Road to God.
In the midst of an election year it seems our allegiances are being torn between the Left and the Right—the left deciding between Clinton and Obama, and the right wondering if McCain is the right man for the job. With every election year comes the promise of hope and the apparently inevitable disappointment that follows […]