I’m not equating him with Hitler, mind you, or Joe Smith or Jim Jones. I’m just trying to understand my own compulsion.
July 1st, 2011
The book is a reminder that whenever you think things can’t get worse, they can. They can get much, much worse.
November 9th, 2011
Mitt Romney has described his faith as “the single most important influence in his life.” He did not go into details.
August 26th, 2012
On 'The Bad Thing,' depression, and suicide
November 25th, 2012
'Les Misérables,' Oscar Hammerstein, and the modern musical
December 25th, 2012
Howard Berman fights for his political life
October 13th, 2012
On her classic 'The Ballad of Sexual Dependency'
December 23rd, 2012
“He was afraid neither of overripe sentimentality nor of despairing bleakness.”
June 12th, 2012
Today in China, individualism and pluralism thrive as never before. But, all in all, it is an opportunistic and self-regarding individualism.
March 1st, 2012
What happens in Heinrich Böll's novels, and why am I calling them experimental?
August 3rd, 2011
"For Robinson, America has declined because of pervasive and corrosive ideologies that ascribe human motivation solely to self-interest."
May 22nd, 2012
Walter White's Rebellion
July 13th, 2012
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