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“Turn on, tune in, drop out.” Timothy Leary’s famous exhortation still influences our view of so-called psychedelic or hallucinogenic substances. We might associate psychedelics with the excesses of…

And apparently he cheats at golf.

Masculinity made the news again. We see it in the standoff between a self-described militia and the Federal Government in Rose, Oregon. It is in the raging debate over gun policy and in the candidacy…

Over the weekend, the #realclergybios hashtag spread like Gospel on Twitter, with countless pastors and seminarians shelling out hard truths about everything from doubting one’s vocation to fighting…

The only Trump sympathizers I’ve met are Muslims. There have been three. Unsurprisingly, in the last few months, I’ve met no more. The first was a woman who told me, over afternoon tea, that somebody…

“I have never really understood exactly what a ‘liberal’ is,” Assata Shakur writes, “since I have heard ‘liberals’ express every conceivable opinion on every conceivable subject.” I am prompted to use…

Within the first dozen words of Chris Hedges’ recent articl e on liberal Protestants we learn both that its institutions are “demonic” (bad!) and that it is committing “suicide” (also bad, or at least…

Fast on the heels of the news that a Bavarian boys choir directed by Pope Benedict’s brother was a hotbed of physical and sexual abuse for decades, comes the allegation that Cardinal Gerhard Müller…

While the Democratic Party in Iowa appears to be split down the middle after Bernie Sanders’ surprisingly strong showing, the picture on the Republican side of the aisle appears much more confusing…

Did it strike anyone else as odd that the Vatican announced that women could have their feet washed on Holy Thursday the same week Mattel announced three new Barbie sizes ( and a number of other…