The Week’s Best Reads
Sinners in the Hands Sonia Smith, Texas Monthly When is a church a cult?
Dear America, I Saw You Naked Jason Edward Harrington, Politico Magazine And yes, we were laughing. Confessions of an ex-TSA agent.
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Feminism’s Toxic Twitter Wars Michelle Goldberg, The Nation Empowered by social media, feminists are calling one another out for ideological offenses. Is it good for the movement? And whose movement is it?
A Botched Operation Eyal Press, The New Yorker Steven Brigham’s abortion clinics keep being sanctioned for offering substandard care. Why is he still in business?
READ MORE Self-Perfecting Machines
In the Shadow of Sharon Avishai Margalit, The New York Review of Books By all accounts, Ariel Sharon had an astoundingly quick mind. But he was either untrained for, or simply distrusted, any form of abstract thinking.
Inside the Conservative Christian Movie the Oscars Ousted Jonathan D. Fitzgerald and David Sessions, The Daily Beast A right-wing sugar daddy, two groups of evangelical filmmakers, a famous composer, an Oscar nod, and an Academy backlash: the strange story of a Christian movie’s 15 minutes of fame.
READ MORE Hollywood's First Sexplosion
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