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Save Me Somebody: Bruce Springsteen’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Covenant
I. “The Ministry of Rock and Roll” One night during his 1999-2000 tour with the E Street Band, midway through an elongated version of “Light of Day,” Bruce Springsteen stopped the song in its tracks to...
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Sins of the City
The Deadly Sins?To get to Staten Island from Brooklyn, you have to fork over a seven-dollar toll, which is a pretty steep cover charge to enter the blandest borough in the city. But that’s the point —...
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Dear Doctor Ullman
"The idea is to get the other side to quit by not firing a shot..." Editors’ Note: Most coverage of protest and support of the war in Iraq makes it all seem so simple: You’re with it or against it;...
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We here at KtB had an interesting weekend, quite by accident spending some time with a couple of unexpectedly complementary classics: After Virtue and Love and Death. The former, Alasdair MacIntyre’s...
View ArticleDivinity & Disgust
The question of where morality comes from remains a bee in the bonnet of both religionists and philosophers. Or perhaps it only seems so because we’ve lately been reading a few books on the subject....
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The Douthat Obsession
From the KtB inbox this morning: Dear Killing the Buddha, We have noticed some suspicious internet activity on the part of subject Mary Valle. We observed that she clicked on this article over 500...
View ArticleA Generation of Moral Dolts?
Good ol’ David Brooks, telling it like it is again in the Times, drawing from the latest work of sociologist Christian Smith about “the state of America’s youth” (in a book which Brooks incorrectly,...
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Victim-Blaming After the Zombies Come
Is preserving our own beliefs better than reaching out to help others no matter what the personal cost? I contemplated this thorny issue watching “JSS,” the second episode in season six of the zombie...
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Save Me Somebody: Bruce Springsteen’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Covenant
I. “The Ministry of Rock and Roll” One night during his 1999-2000 tour with the E Street Band, midway through an elongated version of “Light of Day,” Bruce Springsteen stopped the song in its tracks to...
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Sins of the City
The Deadly Sins?To get to Staten Island from Brooklyn, you have to fork over a seven-dollar toll, which is a pretty steep cover charge to enter the blandest borough in the city. But that’s the point —...
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Dear Doctor Ullman
"The idea is to get the other side to quit by not firing a shot..." Editors’ Note: Most coverage of protest and support of the war in Iraq makes it all seem so simple: You’re with it or against it;...
View ArticleDeath & Virtue: Billy & Woody
We here at KtB had an interesting weekend, quite by accident spending some time with a couple of unexpectedly complementary classics: After Virtue and Love and Death. The former, Alasdair MacIntyre’s...
View ArticleDivinity & Disgust
The question of where morality comes from remains a bee in the bonnet of both religionists and philosophers. Or perhaps it only seems so because we’ve lately been reading a few books on the subject....
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The Douthat Obsession
From the KtB inbox this morning: Dear Killing the Buddha, We have noticed some suspicious internet activity on the part of subject Mary Valle. We observed that she clicked on this article over 500...
View ArticleA Generation of Moral Dolts?
Good ol’ David Brooks, telling it like it is again in the Times, drawing from the latest work of sociologist Christian Smith about “the state of America’s youth” (in a book which Brooks incorrectly,...
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Victim-Blaming After the Zombies Come
Is preserving our own beliefs better than reaching out to help others no matter what the personal cost? I contemplated this thorny issue watching “JSS,” the second episode in season six of the zombie...
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Getting to the Good Place
[Editor’s note: Here be spoilers! If you have yet to watch the first three seasons of The Good Place and would like to remain spoiler-free, proceed with extreme caution.] Humanity’s fate, as fans of...
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