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October 2014

October 07, 2014

Harrison Bergeron-ing a Too-Exceptional Sprinter

There's an article in the NYT today covering one of my philosophy of the body hobbyhorses....

September 2014

September 30, 2014

When’s the last time I spoke to a *real* adult?

This weekend, when I was hosting a debate on "R: Send Your Children to Public...

September 22, 2014

Finding Fellowship in Exile [Pope Francis Bookclub]

In 2014, I’m reading and blogging through Pope Francis/Cardinal Bergoglio’s Open Mind, Faithful Heart: Reflections on...

September 09, 2014

Endless War without a Proving Peace

My parish here in DC is very lucky because, now that the summer's over, we...

August 2014

August 27, 2014

Charity for Society’s Canaries

After Robin Williams's suicide, SlateStarCodex wrote a thoughtful meditation, and I'd like to highlight one...

August 20, 2014

Purity, Anxiety, and Effective Altruism

During the past weekend, I got into a conversation with some folks about the knock-on...

August 12, 2014

Parallel Meltdowns at Burger King

There's been a (possibly apocryphal) story flying around the interblags about a confrontation between a...

August 07, 2014

What’s the Difference between Forgiveness and Self-Deception?

An atheist friend of mine recently posted the following question to Facebook (and gave me...

August 05, 2014

The Ethicist Endorses Omertà

The NYT's Ethicist has taken a very strange approach to wrongdoing in this weekend's column. A...

July 2014

July 31, 2014

Must We Reclaim Lydia Bennett?

Greta Christina thinks Lydia Bennett has been given short shrift. Although Lizzie Bennett has a...

July 09, 2014

Compassion for Child Abandonment

I've been rooting for the cops to not catch the mother who abandoned her baby...

June 2014

June 25, 2014

Anti-Homeless Laws with Teeth

China has added a new, less subtle trick to the annals of anti-homeless architecture. Park...

June 24, 2014

Selling Beauty Short

Nathan Biberdorf would like us all to stop affirming each other by asserting that everyone is...

June 17, 2014

Who Watches the Executioners?

Yesterday, a federal judge rejected Marcus Wellons's plea for a stay of execution. If no other...

June 15, 2014

The Merry Merchant and the Sad Antonio

Last night, I had the pleasure of seeing the closing night performance of The Merchant of...

June 12, 2014

The School Where Bullies Ask for Help

The American Prospect has a beautiful feature on a high school that started trying out...

June 10, 2014

The Loneliness of Lying

The Toast is in the middle of an ongoing, very funny series of reimagining the...

June 04, 2014

In the Moral Landscape, There Still Be Dragons

Sam Harris has announced the winning entry in his contest for critiques of The Moral Landscape:...

June 01, 2014

“Love Unconcerned with Being Returned”

So far, when I've used Jen Fulwiler's Saint Generator to pick a saint to learn...

May 2014

May 29, 2014

Fear of the Friendzone, Wire Monkeys, and Communion

Why do people have so much contempt for "the Friendzone"? Part of the problem is...

May 28, 2014

Making a Home for the Homely in Romance

I don't follow the opera world, but critics made enough of a stir about the...

May 20, 2014

When Asking for Help is Generous

My piece in the most recent print edition of The American Conservative came out from behind the...

May 18, 2014

A Trans-Atlantic Dating Gap

By playing the clip below, you can get a sense of my level of bafflement...

May 15, 2014

Practicing Custody of the Eyes Online

I'm covering the recent E.U. court decision that Google needed to remove "irrelevant" links from...

May 13, 2014

You’ve Got a (Vowed) Friend in Me

A Queer Calling, an excellent blog run by two celibate women living in partnership together,...

April 2014

April 24, 2014

Prisoners are Calling. Who’s Answering?

Today, I'm over at First Things to talk about prisons, communities, and cell phones. Until cellphones made...

March 2014

March 20, 2014

Spite as a Coping Mechanism

Slate's advice columnist, Prudence, recently fielded a question from a reader who was starting to...

March 17, 2014

The Odd Contempt of Impatience

In 2014, I’m reading and blogging through Pope Francis/Cardinal Bergoglio’s Open Mind, Faithful Heart: Reflections on...

March 13, 2014

Very Boring Kinds of Goodness

I mentioned yesterday that I've not made any exciting changes for Lent (neither giving up...

March 12, 2014

A Reporter’s Prayer

My friends have been asking me what I'm doing for Lent, and I don't have...