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Bart Ehrman chairs the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of Peter, Paul and Mary Magdalene: The Followers of Jesus in History and Legend, which we have excerpted below, in addition to The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot, Truth and Fiction in the Da […]
A legal look at Sweeney Todd.
Ben’s place of the week is Priština, Kosovo.
Zelinksy questions why Derek Jeter’s New York tax settlement has not been made public.
Mark McNeilly, author of George Washington and the Art of Business: Leadership Principles of America’s First Commander-in-Chief, questions who Washington would have voted for.
A podcast with Stuart Vyse author of Going Broke: Why Americans Can’t Hold On To Their Money.
Happy Friday to all! Below are some links to help you through the day. See you Monday! An interview with Orhan Pamuk. Is content king? Are embryos morally equal to people? Feeling artistic? I want this bookcase! Time for a trip to Philly? Banned words. Need a name for the main character in that novel […]
An interview with Ethan Rarick.
Some word love for Valentine’s Day.
Authors Domke and Coe look at Presidential Candidate Mike Huckabee.
David Perlmutter looks at who bloggers are and what their influence is on their fellow Americans.
Anatoly explains the key to “understanding”.
Ben’s Place of the week is Santiago, Chile.
Notes from Tools of Change ’08.
George Weisz is a Professor of Social Studies of Medicine at McGill University. In his book, Divide and Conquer: A Comparative History of Medical Specialization he traces the origins of modern medical specialization to 1830s Paris and examines its spread to Germany, Britain, and the US, showing how it evolved from a feature of academic […]
Evan’s post last week, Do I Believe in Ebooks?: Part One, stimulated some interesting conversation in the blogosphere and I hope that Part Two, his bold recommendation, will encourage all of us to reconsider the potential of ebooks. I will be at the Tools of Change conference today and I hope some of my fellow […]