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September 2015

September 21, 2015

The Carly Fiorina challenge

During the last presidential candidate debate, Carly Fiorina--who has jumped to second place in the...

September 11, 2015

A journalist’s experience in Vietnam

The German Lutheran journalist Uwe Siemon-Netto, a friend of mine, has written Duc: Triumph of...

August 2015

August 25, 2015

Hackers enforcing morality?

So the Ashley Madison site, designed to hook up people who want to commit adultery,...

August 19, 2015

Why you hate talking on the phone

Do you dislike having to call up people, in real time, on the phone? Would...

August 06, 2015

. . .and the second tier debate

I'd also like us to live blog the 5:00 p.m. debate featuring the seven candidates...

July 2015

July 03, 2015

“There are not two sides.”

As the nation's media openly joined in the celebrations of the Supreme Court's decision on...

June 2015

June 27, 2015

Newspaper won’t allow opinions against gay marriage

Where we are already, after the Supreme Court's gay marriage ruling: A Harrisburg, PA, newspaper...

June 16, 2015

ABC’s predictions for June, 2015

We often make predictions here at the Cranach blog, but we also do what often...

June 12, 2015

New York Times exposes Marco Rubio

The New York Times has published a series of articles (linked at the source, after...

April 2015

April 15, 2015

Death of a funny guy

Humorist Stan Freberg died last week at the age of 88. He pioneered the satire...

March 2015

March 30, 2015

Civil War photos online

The Library of Congress has acquired thousands of Civil War photographs and has put them...

February 2015

February 24, 2015

The digital generation prefers print on paper

I really enjoy my Kindle. But when it comes to reading scholarly works, I need...

January 2015

January 15, 2015

A “heavenly tourist” takes back his claims

There are a number of books in the genre of what has been called "Heavenly...

December 2014

December 29, 2014

November 2014

November 25, 2014

Supreme Court takes up Facebook threats

Does this message from an estranged husband to his wife after she filed a restraining...

November 12, 2014

The New York Times on World Magazine

The New York Times, of all publications, has an appreciative article on World Magazine, where...

November 05, 2014

Tappett brother dies

I have a thesis that anything can be made interesting, if it is just presented...

October 2014

October 28, 2014

I’m interviewed for Reformation Week at Issues, Etc.

It's Reformation Week at Issues, Etc., the syndicated radio program that you can hear online...

August 2014

August 27, 2014

Reading on Kindle vs. reading on paper

The London Guardian reports on a study of reading on a Kindle as compared to...

August 04, 2014

Stupid person tricks

One of the latest YouTube "challenges" is to rub alcohol on yourself, set yourself on...

August 01, 2014

Todd exposes the war photo from space

The internet, newspapers, and television news have been showing this photograph of Israel and Gaza...

July 2014

July 29, 2014

Mollie Hemingway: Washington’s coolest scourge

We've linked quite a bit to the work of my friend and friend-of-my-daughters Mollie Hemingway,...

July 25, 2014

Do kids raised by same-sex couples really fare better?

The media has been trumpeting an Australian study that purported to show that children raised...

June 2014

June 18, 2014

A liberal changes his mind on the Tea Party

The liberal MNSBC commentator Chris Matthews has declared, ""This looking down our noses at tea...

June 13, 2014

A supercomputer didn’t really pass the Turing Test

The media reported that a supercomputer passed the Turing Test, a measure of artificial intelligence...

June 10, 2014

The father of modern journalism: Martin Luther

World Magazine editor Marvin Olasky writes about how an independent press has its roots in...

May 2014

May 16, 2014

Associated Press will shorten the news

We've blogged about the findings that the internet has diminished people's ability to read long,...