The trouble with Darren Aronofsky’s blockbuster isn’t that it’s offensive to Christians; it’s that it’s too Christianized.
Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux
Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux is a freelance writer and a former writing fellow at the Prospect.
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Daily Meme: The Fog of Donald Rumsfeld
You may recall an infamous news conference in February 2002–a year before the invasion of Iraq-when reporters packed the Pentagon Briefing Room, hoping to wring some answers about Saddam Hussein’s shadowy weapons of mass destruction program from senior defense officials. Donald Rumsfeld, the defense secretary, decided that the reporters did not deserve the benefit of […]
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The Conversation: Joshua Steckel and Andrew Delbanco
Steckel, a high school college counselor and author of Hold Fast to Dreams, and Delbanco, author of College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be, discuss the collegiate experience of low-income students.
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The Strange Bedfellows of the Anti-Contraception Alliance
Evangelicals and Catholics didn’t always share the same views on contraception and abortion. A look at how their alliance came to be and how it’s shaping crucial legal battles.
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News Flash: An Abortion Provider Wins in Kansas
A former colleague of George Tiller’s had her medical license revoked by Governor Sam Brownback’s health board. Now a court says she can get it back.
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Daily Meme: The Flood Will Not Be Televised
You might think, given the country’s general secular drift, that Bible epics would not be Hollywood’s latest cash cow. And you would, of course, be wrong. This year, no less than four movies (loosely) based on Biblical stories will appear in theaters near you. The deluge began last month with Son of God, a feature-length […]
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The Last Rural Abortion Clinics in Texas Just Shut Down
Back-alley procedures are about to become a lot more common.
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Daily Meme: Vladimir Putin is Delusional Like a Fox
In the wee hours of yesterday morning, while you were still blissfully asleep, Russia’s president and tiger-fighter-in-chief, Vladimir Putin, gave a strange, rambling press conference. In it, he insisted to reporters that there were no Russian troops on the ground in Crimea, and likened U.S. foreign policy to a dark science experiment. “They sit there […]
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Daily Meme: The Collapse of Bitcoin, the Online Currency You Never Fully Understood
Yesterday, Mt. Gox, the world’s largest trading platform for bitcoins-the virtual currency that started circulating online in 2009-suddenly went blank. Bitcoin prices crashed. Bitcoin enthusiasts insisted that this was merely a minor hiccup on the currency’s path to world domination. For those of us who are not immersed in this confusing online culture, the collapse […]
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Should We Call the Midwife?
How best to give birth is a topic of perennial interest—a conversation between Prospect staffers who stand on different sides of the home birth debate.