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I'll be posting with less regularity for the time being.  Thanks for your past and future interest!

From a Chronicle article by Tom Bartlett titled  " The Science of Hate ": Gordon Allport One such method is called intergr...

From the New York Times .  Chester, PA had been without a grocery store since 2001.... That changed in late September when a full-fledg...

From Nature :  DNA was taken from the boy's arm bone The 24,000-year-old remains of a young boy from the Siberian village of Mal...

Yesterday's post illustrated the perils of interpreting ancient sacred texts.  Greg Carey, who teaches at Lancaster Theological Semina...

From Religion News Service : On a Veterans Day broadcast program , televangelist Kenneth Copeland and controversial historian David Bart...

A nice counterpoint to Monday's post .  Casey Quinlan writes at The Atlantic Cities : Kacey Musgraves (l) and Brandy Clark (r) On...

David Runicam writes in The Chronicle Review that "the history of modern democracy is a tale of steady success accompanied by the con...

At The New Republic , Michael Washburn explains today's fascination with Appalachia: Penns Valley in Central PA What’s changed in...

From this week's Economist : That alliance (many Germans no longer call it a friendship) was always complicated. Germans have yearne...

Sympathy is the better goal, writes Lee Siegel in The New Yorker : Branagh's Othello Though empathy has become something like th...

Excerpted from Colin Woodard's article in Tufts Magazine : The 11 "nations" of North America Why is violence so much m...

Joe Nocera lists some of the most common recommendations: The gerrymandered Illinois 4th Move elections to the weekend. Do you know...

Interesting report from the NYT 's Andrew Higgins on the unique blend of anti-immigrant, pro-welfare sentiments among Europe's pop...

... or the political tribalism of American evangelicals.  He recently offered these observations in an interview with Read the Spirit : ...

A fascinating piece in the Boston Globe : The country’s leaders have tried over the years to stanch the problem by making alcohol harder...

From yesterday's New York Times : The known odds of something — or someone — living far, far away from Earth improved beyond astrono...

Marginal Revolution spotlights a new study : Pierce, Rogers and Snyder find that political partisans are more upset about an election ...

From an article by Derek Thompson in the latest issue of The Atlantic : In the late 19th century , soon after a network of rail lines an...

Peter Harkness, founder of Governing , writes that the fight over Obamacare is only one part of a broader battle about the meaning of fede...

David Simon , the creator and writer of The Wire , agrees with the critical consensus that Steve McQueen's 12 Years A Slave is now th...

From a Christine Rosen piece in the Wall Street Journal : ... Another recent attack, on a blind man walking down the street in broad da...

To keep the people down!  From the " FYI " archives at the NYT :  Squadron A Armory After the Civil War, a number of armori...

Kevin Daughtery is in the process of planting a church in western PA.  He offers these observations at his blog: ... What I realize now ...

The BBC's Kenan Malik explains how Jews and Christians interpret the story of Adam and Eve: Blake's Temptation and Fall of Eve...

From Pacific Standard : Outraged! As we embark on yet another political crisis, many Americans will be getting their information fro...

Robert E. Brown reviews American Zion: The Old Testament as a Political Text from the Revolution to the Civil War by Eran Shalev: As hi...

Berkeley professor David Kirp writes up a study of affordable housing in suburban New Jersey: Low-income housing complex in Mount Laur...

From a Mark Tapson article at Acculturated : Jonathan Franzen is serious about literature. “Serious writers and readers, these are my peo...