Back to Salem Back to Salem
Off goes former Father Paul Shanley to state prison in Massachusetts for twelve to fifteen years, convicted of digitally raping and otherwise sexually abusing Paul Busa two decad...
Feb 17, 2005 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn
A Buddha for the Blue States A Buddha for the Blue States
Scholars of the New Testament speculate that the Gospel of Mark was the first of the canonical Gospels to be composed, sometime between 68 and 73 CE, or thirty-five to forty year...
Feb 3, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Donald S. Lopez Jr.
Our Godless Constitution Our Godless Constitution
The faith of our Founding Fathers definitely wasn't Christianity.
Feb 3, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Brooke Allen
Blood Simple Blood Simple
Half a century has passed since Manny Farber wrote in these pages about underground films, by which he meant the urban crime movies watched by male loiterers near the Greyhound s...
Jan 20, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Jesus to the Rescue? Jesus to the Rescue?
Can a dose of Christianity stiffen the Democrats' spine, win back Kansas and bring people power to the anemic left?
Jan 20, 2005 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Beyond Good and Evil Beyond Good and Evil
Adorno said, as we all know, that writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric. This is not to say, as many imagine, that writing poetry after Auschwitz is to be forbidden, or is i...
Jan 13, 2005 / Books & the Arts / John Banville
An Arab Surrealist An Arab Surrealist
The Springs of Adonis (now also known as the River Ibrahim) run through the Byblos region of Lebanon down through steep gorges to the Mediterranean.
Dec 16, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Robert Irwin
Goodbye to All That? Goodbye to All That?
On European anti-Semitism, old and new.
Dutch Tolerance Tried Dutch Tolerance Tried
“We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.” So said the philosopher Karl Popper near the end of World War II.
Dec 2, 2004 / Editorial / Maria Margaronis
Sex & the Clergy Sex & the Clergy
Exit poll results indicating that 22 percent of voters ranked moral values as the most important factor in their support for a presidential candidate have occupied more than thei...
Nov 24, 2004 / Editorial / Frances Kissling