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23 April 2026

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Mar 4, 2016 — &
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Film critic Andrew Lapin says Disney’s animated feature turns a story about talking animals into a reflection on cultural prejudice. Plus: Why Spotlight was spot-on.

Mar 4, 2016 — &
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David Kyuman Kim and George Lipsitz contemplate how we can learn and benefit from life’s disappointments.

Mar 3, 2016 — &
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Matt Lewis tells us what he would do to bring down the GOP front-runner if he suddenly had ultimate power over the party’s resources.

Mar 3, 2016 — &
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Mark Smith explains how abolitionists pioneered new interpretive methods to deal with explicitly pro-slavery scriptures. Plus: Creative interpretations of the Bible in the abortion debate.

Mar 3, 2016 — &
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Critic Andrew Lapin says the Best Picture winner, about the Boston Globe reporters who took on the Catholic Church, gives audiences rare insight into the world of journalism.

Mar 2, 2016 — &
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Aryeh Cohen-Wade and William Beutler discuss the non-fictions laced throughout David Foster Wallace’s contemporary classic. Plus: The dangers of forcing Apple to decrypt its phones.

Mar 1, 2016 — &
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Mark Smith, author of the new book Secular Faith, explains how scriptures have been creatively interpreted—and even modified—in the abortion debate.

Mar 1, 2016 — &
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Nikita Petrov and writer Daniele Bolelli ponder whether the internet and other modern media may turn us into disembodied entities. Plus: Self-help qualities of cage fighting.

Feb 29, 2016 — &
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Glenn Loury and John McWhorter discuss how the racialized rhetoric of the 90s-era reforms may obscure their positive results. Plus: Does Hillary deserve black suppport?

Feb 29, 2016 — &
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William Beutler says if Apple is forced to unlock even a single device, it makes all other iPhones more vulnerable.

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