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“Do I look like a terrorist?” the orange-robed monk asked me, confident that I would see the question as absurd. The monk, Ashin Wirathu, had been portrayed on the cover of Time magazine’s…

David Carr didn’t want you to trust him. It’s a funny thing about journalists and trust. Skepticism is a point of professional pride. “If your mother says she loves you,” the j-school saying goes,…

To many Israelis, the world of Christian Zionism is largely hidden from public view. But a new report out from the Israeli progressive think tank, Molad, aims to change that, casting a bright light on…

The deafening whomp-whomp-whomp you may have heard when Brian Williams got caught in a lie last week was not the approach of a Black Hawk helicopter. It was the media’s schadenfreude machine roaring…

The World Press Photo of the Year, announced this week, featured Jon and Alex, a gay couple in St. Petersburg Russia, in a tender moment. The photo was both a reminder of and a sharp contrast to the…

My previous post on corporate personhood ended by asking for a principled reason why we should protect the “religious freedom” of religiously-affiliated nonprofit corporations such as Wheaton College…

It is as if, by professing how much we hate all images, we in turn profess how much we really, in the end, love our images more than all others.

Earlier this week, reacting to the faux controversy over President Obama’s National Prayer Breakfast remarks, Ed Kilgore argued that all too often, the media ignores the views of liberal Christians…

I plead guilty right up front to once participating in the cult I intend to critique. I, too, have worshipped at the feet of the Great Emancipator, imbibing in my early youth the whole kit-and…

Last summer, toward the end of a short post on “religious liberty” arguments, I cited an article from Social Science Quarterly finding that ideologically extreme positions may be disguised within…