by Adam | Thursday 13 October 2011
Regardless of your position on Christopher Hitchens and his well-known atheism (or battle with cancer, I should add), this story out of my native Houston about his unexpected discussion about literature with an eight-year-old girl warms the cockles of the...
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by Adam | Wednesday 28 May 2008
A brief TFR shout-out to Michael Maze for bringing this wonderful piece to my attention. This is pretty special, everyone should read this...as I'm learning...this means me. Selfishly, I'd like to connect it to a post I recently wrote about...
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by Adam | Friday 20 April 2007
I suppose it's blase to beat up on anyone in this administration these days, but honestly, this was too much. Since today is National Apathy Day (chemically, at least), I wanted to posit some kind of passing/flailing/stabbing moral inquisition...
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by Adam | Tuesday 27 February 2007
Nina Simone, 1962, Eretz Zavat Chalav (A Land Filled with Milk and Honey)...
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by Adam | Thursday 18 January 2007
For anyone hungry for a fascinating debate about religious moderation, fundamentalism, atheism, and faith, I urge you to check out Beliefnet for an ongoing dialogue between the eminently brilliant and articulate Andrew Sullivan and the always brave Sam Harris....
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by Adam | Tuesday 19 December 2006
Who Americans Are and What They Do, In Census Data From The New York Times: More than half of American households owned stocks and mutual funds in 2005. The 91 million individuals in those households had a median age of...
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