by Adam | Tuesday 28 June 2011
Without the self-congratulatory flourishes of most, Fania Oz-Salzberger writes in Haaretz about Jewish nationalism as model for other national movements and dispels some characterizations of Jewish nationalism that are, well, insulting to everybody. (h/t to newly-married TFR spiritual curator Michael)...
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by Adam | Sunday 26 June 2011
wrote an extremely moving essay in this week's NYTimes Magazine about his life as an undocumented immigrant. He also has a Pulitzer Prize and is risking deportation by writing the article. Very much worth your time....
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by Adam | Sunday 26 June 2011
An uncharacteristically serious Jon Stewart sits down with Fox News and essentially diagnoses the ills of mainstream media and partisan media while deconstructing Fox News' obsession with him...all while being interviewed by a somewhat hostile Chris Wallace. It's really your...
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by Adam | Friday 24 June 2011
Gay Talese wrote this very hypnotic piece about his media diet for the Atlantic. If you don't read the Media Diet series, you're missing out on a lot of really interesting (and oddly repetitive) guides for how and what writers...
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by Adam | Tuesday 21 June 2011
This place is very strange. Not that all other airports seem normal, but this one, here in the nowheres of Colorado is especially weird. First of all, the airport itself is immaculately clean. You could eat an Omaha steak off...
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by Adam | Thursday 16 June 2011
I was recently asked to lend my musical "expertise" to help a future mother compile a list of tracks for her gestating child to listen to while both inside and out of the womb. The parameters were classic, but not...
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by Adam | Thursday 9 June 2011
I'm stopped reading the NYT op-ed columns, but I happened to love this Ta-Nehisi Coates op-ed in the Times... I am reminded of the House Republicans, opening the 112th Congress by reciting the Constitution, minus the slavery parts. I am...
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