Oct 18 2010

‘The Circle Dance of Time’ — Finding Stillness and Solace in Our Modern World

Reading is a religious act. We hope it is also something spiritual, but above all it is a ritual designed to create a space where something sacred, or akin to the sacred, can happen. It may not. In that regard, reading is much like ritual prayer, or perhaps the sabbath. We follow the traditions, wait, [...]


Jul 23 2010

Nancy Pelosi Q&A: Financial Law Reform Is a Modern ‘New Deal’

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Jul 10 2010

‘The Kids Are All Right’: A Modern American Family

With the nationwide opening Friday of “The Kids Are All Right,” a nearly perfect movie, a Sundance award-winner now gathering acclaim, we can declare with some certainty that stodgy, conventional Hollywood has finally made the great cultural leap to bring to the screen an exceptional picture of a perfectly normal lesbian couple and their children [...]