Critics of Hasidic Schools Exposé Missed the Point: It Wasn’t Antisemitic or the Product of Secular Bias — It’s a Story of Corruption
When I was in yeshiva in Boro Park in the early 80s, I was asked…
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Evangelical Groundhog Day: The ‘Times’ Identifies the ‘Religious Fervor in the American Right’ — Around Four Decades Late
In autumn 1980, I was a senior at a Christian college in California taking a…
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Turn On The News: The Times Has to Make a Choice: It Can’t Laugh at Satanic Claims and Take the Christian Right at Face Value
Allow me to play devil’s advocate for a moment, so to speak. Have you ever…
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The New York Times Adds a ‘Kinder,’ ‘Gentler’ Anti-Gay Authoritarian Christian to its Roster
If you’re a progressive American who strives to keep up with the world of news…
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A Portrait of Islamophobia?
On December 5th the New York Times published an editorial on its front page for the…
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Is It the Job of Religion Journalists to Define “Religion”?
Weighing in on historian Damon Linker’s suggestion that the Times’ Mark Oppenheimer has just written himself out of a job.
Read MoreSpringtime for Ross Douthat?
Ross Douthat’s latest column offers proof of Godwin’s law in the headline—and goes downhill from there. And the headline…
Read MoreWhat the Surveys Don’t (And Can’t) Say About the Rise of the “Spiritual But Not Religious”
It all begins with “survey says….” But it doesn’t end there.
Read More“I’m a Creationist,” Says Former Times Tech Writer, Heffernan
Don’t worry, it’s mostly aesthetic.
Read MoreBush Era to Blame for Renewed Interest in Mainline?
From the Transcendentalists to Alcoholics Anonymous, yoga and “the gospel of Oprah.”
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