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As the half-season closes on this sci-fi epic, we take inventory on where the show has gone, and gone wrong. Among the robots, avatars, and people who love them, there are a lot of big ideas, but not enough story.

An exhibit now at the New York Institute of Technology features the designs of theoretical architect Jonathan Block Friedman.

Fundamentalism tries to erase how Jesus was a dangerous rebel.

A new series highlights heroes.

In this fourth installment of Mark Dery’s cultural critique-cum-“nonfiction novella” about a born-again teen’s transcendent encounter with Ziggy Stardust in the 1970s, our hero reckons with a conflicted Christ and watches in disgust as his beloved friday night coffee house is subsumed by the very church it served as an alternative to.

Christian Soldiers of the Apocalypse have been running around the woods of Michigan planning attacks on federal law enforcement in their war against the Antichrist. How does the Hutaree Militia fit into the history of American militias and conspiracy theorists?

The newspaper’s right wing TV critic charges that Amanpour, an Iranian-born journalist, can’t be objective on Israel.

Is it the inhumanity of the machines that will prove to be the tragic pivot in this science fiction world, or will it the inhumanity of the humans? Again we find ourselves asking: where does human consciousness begin?

This week’s episode asks big questions about psychology and religion, and reminds us that a dog is a robot’s best friend.

Why is the right launching a War on Easter?