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Eat Your Vegetables: "Jane Eyre"

Each week in Eat Your Vegetables, Carissa Smith shares the benefit and appeal... read more

Eat Your Vegetables: Handel's "Messiah"

Each week in Eat Your Vegetables, Carissa Smith shares the benefit and appeal... read more

Eat Your Vegetables: Trollope!

Each week in Eat Your Vegetables, Carissa Smith shares with us some... read more

Foodie-ism: A Form of Gluttony?

In a fascinating article called “The Moral Crusade against Foodies,” B.R. Myers... read more

RetroPost: The Oscars: A Plea for Accessibility without...

Two years ago, Carissa Smith had high expectations for the Oscars, and... read more

The King's Psychobabble

I saw The King's Speech a few weeks ago, and the acting... read more

To Change the World: There Are Better Reasons...

Our pipe dreams of world-changing may be misguided. read more

"A Tough Season for Believers"; A Good Season...

Ross Douthat's latest op-ed in the New York Times begins by addressing... read more

Mockingjay's Hermeneutics of Suffering

Does the final book make or break the Hunger Games series? read more

Catching Fire: Team Love Triangle or Team Dystopian...

The second installment of the Hunger Games trilogy deals with romance as... read more

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