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. A newly discovered C.S. Lewis letter reveals his definition of “joy”: A letter from CS Lewis which was discovered inside a secondhand book sees the author writing of how “real joy … […]
Karen Swallow Prior meditates on the slow marriage of North and South.
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. BuzzFeed staffer Jessica Misener considers how it would have looked if online media convered the first Thanksgiving: A Touch of Brooklyn in…Plymouth? A hip, young crowd from England brings the latest […]
I am not sure what A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night actually is. It emerges from the recent crop of vampire films cloaked in a lot of little genre hooks, but then defies easy description once fully unleashed. It is also undeniably beautiful, even alluring. It takes place in Bad City, an Iranian town bordered by […]
In 1989, Fukuyama declared the “end of history” in the “universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government.” Norte begins with a similar mouthful, kicked about by Fabian and his law school colleagues as they muse over beers about class and inequity in the current Philippines’ economy. This theme of ideology […]
Certain strands of friendship can cross distances, but others—regretfully—are broken.
The study of religion, though far younger than many of its counterparts in the humanities, is now an established and well-recognized academic field. The American Academy of Religion(AAR), its flagship professional society, has expanded tenfold in the past half century from a fledgling association of mainline Protestant divinity school professors and college chaplains to a […]
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 indie web movement and owning your identinty online: Google and Facebook don’t just run your email and your social network. So often, they’re a core part of your online […]
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 […]