The Passion of Katniss: How the Hunger Games Confronts the Trauma of Violence
If Hollywood is any indicator, one of the nation’s great romantic fantasies is to fall…
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Is Twitter Doing Enough to Remove Extremist Content? An Ex-Employee Weighs In
As a former (veteran, even) employee of Twitter, I am used to people expressing shock and…
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Note to GOP Voters: “Political Freedom” Comes With Social Responsibility
The Republican contest in this presidential election, as in many before, is between degrees of…
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Tweeting ISIS Attacks: A Lesson in Not Learning a Lesson
After Friday’s horrific attacks on Paris, France, leaving 129 dead, hundreds wounded, a nation traumatized,…
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“Religion, O Diabolic”: Lamenting Religious Violence, Then and Now
Paris has known religious violence before. Over the course of two days in August of 1572, agents…
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What Ben Carson’s Pyramid Theory Might Say About His Foreign Policy
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson’s theory about the origins of the Egyptian pyramids has been…
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Why ISIS War Would Make Paris Attacks a Success
Update: According to CNN, “the French air force carried out bombing missions on ISIS targets…
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Out of Options: Christians’ Losing Battle Over Equality
In the months since the Supreme Court’s decision to make marriage equality the law, conservative…
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Christian Charity Meets Its Match: If You Missed “The Overnighters,” Here’s Why You Should See It Now
Anyone who saw last year’s standout documentary, Jesse Moss’ The Overnighters, probably noted a brief, sober coda to…
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Citizen Speech in an Age of Data: Or, Why I’m Transcribing My Tweets Into Cuneiform
Social media has made possible a new global distribution of cognitive ephemera. We are tweeting 6,000…
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