Tim Tebow is the answer to the prayers of a certain kind of macho Christian, one who recoils at the image of Jesus Christ as a mild, effeminate savior presiding over some nice bread and wine at supper. Such Christians […]
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New York MagazineI am rereading the Little House books with my 8-year-old daughter, and this time around, things between Pa and Ma don’t look as peachy as they did when I was a child. Ma, we learn, wants to live in town so
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New York MagazineLast week, David Pogue, the New York Times tech columnist, proposed to his girlfriend and she said yes. That’s the short version. The Times wedding announcement version would go something like this: David Pogue, the eminent columnist, somehow found time
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New York MagazineTake this all with a grain of salt, but a book being published next month by Current/Penguin, The Chemistry Between Us: Love, Sex and the Science of Attraction, argues that all the sexy, impatient, bored, jealous, secure feelings you think
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New York MagazineBack in olden times, which is to say last February, a social media fan site called Buzznet declared Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson “the perfect couple.” They didn’t have much to go on — mostly a bunch of cute pictures.
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New York MagazineSix days before the Republican convention, the GOP — already with a woman problem on its hands — is endeavoring to gain its balance after one of its own, a Missouri congressman named Todd Akin, made his ignorance regarding the
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New York MagazineIn the current cultural moment, marriage is painted as a state completely without pleasure. Permanent domesticity is thought to be so stultifying that to endure it married people must resort to lying, cheating, drugs, and/or secrets. There’s Gone Girl, the
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New York MagazineThe shrinks and marriage experts call this “financial infidelity,” and it’s the latest thing in the secrets-and-lies category of relationship stories. Dr. Phil has warned against its harmful effects. Bloggers at Forbes, the New York Times, and CBS have weighed
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New York MagazineTuesday, July 31, 2012, Lisa appears on the The Leonard Lopate Show to discuss her New York Magazine article “The Money-Empathy Gap.” Lisa Miller, contributing editor at New York magazine, discusses whether having more money makes people less kind. Her
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Audio, NewsweekMarissa Mayer and the lessons of Sarah Palin. A beloved editor long ago bestowed upon me her loathing of what she called “women who” stories. Women who fight wars. Women who fight fires. Women who accomplish anything significant in worlds
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