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  • When Can We Talk About Trans Mass Shooters?

    When Can We Talk About Trans Mass Shooters?6

    Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas, home of megachurch pastor Joel Osteen, was the site of an attempted mass shooting on February 11. During a Sunday afternoon Spanish-language service, a woman armed with an AK-15 and dressed in a trench coat stormed the church with her 7-year-old son and proceeded to open fire on the congregation.

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  • When Books Die, All at Once

    When Books Die, All at Once1

    Never has the stock market soared higher nor the supply of affordable books been cheaper. Lucky or cursed, let us examine the latter–about which T.S. Eliot asks a great question but falls short in his reply. I confess, I adore them. I thrill to their touch; my heart is aroused by their scent. If old

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  • When Back-to-School Blues Signal a Deeper Problem

    When Back-to-School Blues Signal a Deeper Problem2

    September’s crisp air once carried the promise of new beginnings for students. Fresh notebooks, sharpened pencils, and the excitement of reuniting with friends painted an idyllic back-to-school season. But for an increasing number of students and families, this annual rite of passage now brings a complex mix of emotions: anticipation tinged with anxiety, hope shadowed

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  • When Americans Tried – and Failed – to Reunite Christianity

    When Americans Tried – and Failed – to Reunite Christianity0

    • November 8, 2017

    Five hundred years ago, Martin Luther, a German monk, initiated a split in Christianity that came to be known as the Protestant Reformation. After the Reformation, deep divisions between Protestants and Catholics contributed to wars, hostility and violence in Europe and America. For centuries, each side denounced the other and sought to convert its followers.

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  • When Americans thought hair was a window into the soul

    When Americans thought hair was a window into the soul0

    In 2004, the North Korean government launched one of the oddest television campaigns in recent history: “Let’s trim our hair in accordance with the socialist lifestyle.” Accompanied by radio and print ads, the five-part TV series urged North Korean men to wear their hair short. State-approved haircuts, the campaign explained, ranged in length from one

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  • When Americans Go to the Polls, They Look to the Past — Not the Future

    When Americans Go to the Polls, They Look to the Past — Not the Future0

    There’s one question that almost every American voter asks him- or herself when casting their vote for president. Has the incumbent’s – or the incumbent party’s – past performance in office been sufficient to merit another term? Unlike voters in many other industrialized countries, Americans tend to vote from this “retrospective” perspective. Studies show that

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