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The Briefing 10-24-12

MSNBC’s Matthews Likens Romney-Ryan Abortion Platform To ‘Shariah’ Law… New Survey: 3.4% Of U.S. Adults Are LGBT… Boys Now Enter Puberty Younger, Study Suggests, But It’s Unclear Why… Parents May Sue Over Yoga Lessons In Public Schools… The Subtle Body — Should Christians Practice Yoga? Keep Reading

The Briefing 10-23-12

Obama And Romney Meet In Foreign Policy Debate… Armstrong Is Stripped Of Titles In Cycling… Boyscout Abuse Files Released… Dinesh D’Souza Is Out As Christian College President After Scandal Keep Reading

The Fall Of Scripture And The Rise Of The Academic Bible: A Conversation With Michael Legaspi

The Fall Of Scripture And The Rise Of The Academic Bible: A Conversation With Michael Legaspi Keep Reading

The Fall Of Scripture And The Rise Of The Academic Bible: A Conversation With Michael Legaspi Transcript

Thinking in Public Interview with Michael Legaspi, Author, The Death of Scripture and The Rise of Biblical Studies

Thinking in Public

October 18, 2012 Keep Reading

The Briefing 10-22-12

The American Quixote: The Death Of George McGovern (1922-2012)… A Prairie Liberal, Trounced But Never Silenced… Monday’s Debate Puts Focus On Foreign Policy Clashes… Getting Kids To Get More Green Time Keep Reading

The Briefing 10-19-12

Rival Campaigns Intently Pursue Votes Of Women… Candidates Zero In On Women Voters… Get Beyond The Year Of The Woman… NY Federal Appeals Court Becomes 2nd In Nation To Strike Down Defense Of Marriage Act… Sponsors See Doping Evidence, Flee Lance Armstrong… A Turn Of The Page For Newsweek… 50th Anniversary Of Cuban Missile Crisis Keep Reading

The Briefing 10-18-12

Obama Brought Up Planned Parenthood Four Times In Debate… Celebrity Sperm Donor Service Gears Up For Launch… Nobel Committee Gives Peace Prize To European Union… Peace, They Say Keep Reading

The Briefing 10-17-12

A Short History Of Presidential Debates… The New Culture War Over Fairness… Transaction Man… Textbooks Round The World Keep Reading

Of Babies and Beans? A Frightening Denial of Human Dignity

Adam Gopnik is a gifted essayist and writer whose contributions, often published in The New Yorker, are almost always thoughtful and interesting. Nevertheless, one of his most recent writings is deeply disturbing, and at the deepest level.

Reflecting on the debate between Vice President Joseph Biden and Rep. Paul Ryan, Gopnik registered alarm at “something genuinely disturbing and scary” that had been said by Paul Ryan. Gopnik first complained that Biden and Ryan should not have even been asked about the role their Roman Catholic faith plays in their thinking, specifically on the issue of abortion. Keep Reading

The Briefing 10-16-12

Of Babies And Beans: Paul Ryan On Abortion… Mauritania’s President Shot By Own Army ‘By Mistake’ Keep Reading