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Words to Live by
It’s been linked to plenty over the past few days, but David Foster Wallace’s 2005 commencement address deserves to be read, in light of and ...
On David Foster Wallace
Some marriages come with two microwave ovens or two sets of dishes. Ours did, too, but it also came with two copies of Infinite Jest. ...
The Psychopathic Chicken (and Other Lessons of Evolution)
David Sloan Wilson (an interview) In the fifth chapter of his 2007 book Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin’s Theory Can Change the Way We Think ...
The Private Language of Monkeys
We were in the play area of the department store — most likely building things with Legos — and two girls were taking great delight ...
Can the Left Find God?
An Interview with Michael Lerner A foolish person doesn’t recognize that one can learn much from opponents. So liberals have begun to understand that they ...

I’m guessing that many of the people who have seen Fireproof have never heard of No Country for Old Men. ...
Culture Snob
Box Office Power Rankings: September 26-28
Methinks you misunderstand what Metacritic represents; it’s a review aggregator, so it’s supposed to tell you what critics overall think about a movie. The problem ...
Culture Snob
Box Office Power Rankings: September 26-28
Metacritics have it wrong. Packed houses are the norm for this movie. A little on the amature side, but it’s the only movie I’ve been ...
Tom Sams
Box Office Power Rankings: September 26-28
Wait, what the hell is Fireproof? Why is Kirk Cameron still making films? How do these films gross more than his own $7.50 admission price? ...
Scott
Box Office Power Rankings: September 26-28
Perhaps it was the tenor of the discussion at The House Next Door, in which the author accused her critics of being misogynist pigs for ...
Culture Snob
"Film Critics Seem to Have a Greater Sense of Community"