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Clowns in full costume have a meal before attending the annual Clowns Church Service at Holy Trinity Church in Dalston on February 3, 2013 in London, England. Clowns attend the service in memory of Joseph Grimaldi (1778-1837), the most celebrated... Continue reading
Posted Feb 3, 2013 at The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
Dan Duray details the long and arduous process Lawrence Wright and his team underwent to get the facts right in Going Clear. In 2010 the church sent flacks and lawyers to the New Yorker offices to dissuade the magazine from... Continue reading
Posted Feb 3, 2013 at The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
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Michael Serazio argues that "if you look hard at sports, you can't help but see contours of religion": The notion that sports remain our civic religion is truer than we often let on: In fandom, as in religious worship, our... Continue reading
Posted Feb 3, 2013 at The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
Reviewing Anne Fletcher's Inside Rehab, Sacha Scoblic explains one reason why addiction treatment often fails: [A]s Fletcher masterfully shows, rehab culture has created a deep schism between science and its twelve-step methods. There is now a vast body of research... Continue reading
Posted Feb 3, 2013 at The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
A behind the scenes look: A real behind the scenes look here. Recent Dish on The Puppy Bowl here. Continue reading
Posted Feb 3, 2013 at The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
I have a personal bias. Martin Ivens is a dear friend, my column editor for 15 years, and now acting editor of the Sunday Times. The cartoon they published on International Holocaust Remembrance Day (negligently, not deliberately) can be seen... Continue reading
Posted Feb 3, 2013 at The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
A movement is afoot in Russia to ban the use of foreign words in public: ‘We’re tormented with Americanisms,’ the leader of Russia’s Liberal Democratic Party, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, complained last week. ‘We need to liberate our language from foreign words.’... Continue reading
Posted Feb 3, 2013 at The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
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Dan Charles eyes the Super Bowl snack table: According to the 2013 Wing Report, Americans will eat 1.23 billion wings [this] weekend. ... In an odd twist, the once-cheap wing has become the most desirable and expensive part of the... Continue reading
Posted Feb 3, 2013 at The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
Oliver Sacks finds a silver lining in our tendency to misremember events: We, as human beings, are landed with memory systems that have fallibilities, frailties, and imperfections—but also great flexibility and creativity. Confusion over sources or indifference to them can... Continue reading
Posted Feb 3, 2013 at The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
Colossal captions: Armed with little more than standard garden rake, environmental artist Tony Plant transforms the breathtakingly scenic beaches of England into temporary canvases for his swirling sand drawings. Continue reading
Posted Feb 3, 2013 at The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
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There were some great scenes at the nudity protest in San Francisco today. But one photo (hat tip: Petrelis) somehow brought all the elements together: (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Continue reading
Posted Feb 3, 2013 at The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
Nate Cohn imagines the consequences: If coaches begin to adopt the lessons of advanced football statistics, the changes would be noticeable to even a casual fan: Teams would go for it on fourth down, stop running so much on first... Continue reading
Posted Feb 3, 2013 at The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
Ruminating on competing interpretations of Frost, Joshua Rothman finds himself compelled by Joseph Brodsky's darker, brooding portrait of the poet: Frost, Brodsky writes, in "On Grief and Reason," his 1994 essay for The New Yorker, "is generally regarded as the... Continue reading
Posted Feb 3, 2013 at The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
Brent Cox crunches the numbers, adjusting for inflation, on ticket prices and ad revenue: From the data, it's pretty clear that the increasing popularity of football, as it slowly equaled and then surpassed the popularity of that most American of... Continue reading
Posted Feb 3, 2013 at The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
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Ruth Krause and Helen Whittle lament that the German language "is littered with what some people view as derogatory or discriminatory words," often connected to antiquated racial or ethnic terms: In pubs across Bavaria, people order "Negroes" or "Russians," and... Continue reading
Posted Feb 3, 2013 at The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
Peter Gajdics describes his experiences with reparative therapy: Three years into the therapy I suffered a physical and mental breakdown precipitated by prolonged, near-fatal doses of five concurrent psychotropic medications, one of the many ways Alfonzo "helped" suppress my libido... Continue reading
Posted Feb 3, 2013 at The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
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Claire Cameron celebrates Colm Tóibín's The Testament of Mary, praising the way the novelist "fit his story in between what we know and how we feel," resulting in a story about Jesus and his followers that powerfully resonates with our... Continue reading
Posted Feb 3, 2013 at The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
Reviewing Elie Wiesel's latest book, Open Heart, Stefan Kanfer points to the intractable question that animates the Holocaust survivor: [T]he essential theme of Wiesel's 57th book is the role of theology in a secular age. If he were allowed one... Continue reading
Posted Feb 3, 2013 at The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
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"In the Valley of the Elwy" by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1899): I remember a house where all were good To me, God knows, deserving no such thing: Comforting smell breathed at very entering, Fetched fresh, as I suppose, off some... Continue reading
Posted Feb 3, 2013 at The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
Philosopher Huw Price thinks "we humans are nearing one of the most significant moments in our entire history: the point at which intelligence escapes the constraints of biology." He frets that "if technology does get to this stage, the most... Continue reading
Posted Feb 3, 2013 at The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
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Posted Feb 3, 2013 at The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
Ariel Sabar reports that it's dying out: Aramaic, a Semitic language related to Hebrew and Arabic, was the common tongue of the entire Middle East when the Middle East was the crossroads of the world. ... In a highly connected... Continue reading
Posted Feb 3, 2013 at The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
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Will McDavid ruminates on one of Ernest Hemingway's most compelling short stories, "Big Two-Hearted River," which he describes as "a story about war, woundedness, and living with memories and ghosts": The story’s central symbol, of course, is the river. Nick... Continue reading
Posted Feb 3, 2013 at The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
The Dish has debated at length whether the religious novel is dead, a discussion kicked off by a Paul Elie NYT article. Millman joins the debate: I must admit, I both do and don’t want to believe Elie is right,... Continue reading
Posted Feb 3, 2013 at The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan