media criticism

This post has been edited and a correction has been added. — eds However well-intentioned, NPR’s latest foray into “religious freedom” falls victim to several false equivalencies and ends up leaving…

On March 14 of this year, the Boston Globe announced it would be pulling the plug on Crux, the Catholic news website it launched in 2014. Crux was headed by John Allen Jr., a veteran church reporter…

Three days ago, on December 28, Asra Nomani entered the 1000+ comment stream to her Washington Post op-ed of the previous week: Dear Friends, Thank you so much for your support and intellect on this…

On December 5 th the New York Times published an editorial on its front page for the first time since 1920 to criticize politicians and call for more stringent gun control and regulation. But that was…

Weighing in on historian Damon Linker’s suggestion that the Times’ Mark Oppenheimer has just written himself out of a job.

When you get down to it, neuroscience is just brains studying brains. One upshot of this reflexivity is a funny kind of loop: studying the brain tells you about being a self; being a self offers up…

Ross Douthat’s latest column offers proof of Godwin’s law in the headline—and goes downhill from there. And the headline (a sly reference to The Producers’ “Springtime for Hitler”) isn’t even the…

In his 1967 book Israel: An Echo of Eternity, Abraham Joshua Heschel refers to “the jungle of history.” An interesting locution, and apt. A jungle is a place where things seem to co-exist against all…

It all begins with “survey says….” But it doesn’t end there.

Today the Washington Post published a piece by W. Bradford Wilcox and Robin Fretwell Wilson originally headlined, “One way to end violence against women? Stop taking lovers and get married.” The…