Blog Profile / The Daily Dish By Andrew Sullivan
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Blog Post Archive
A Poem For Sunday
“Rise” by Brenda Shaughnessy: I can’t believe you’ve come back, like the train I missed so badly, barely, which stopped & returned for me. It scared me, humming backwards along the track. I rise to make a supper succulent for the cut of your mouth, your bite of wine so sharp, you remember you were […]
Welcome To Your Unemployment
Speaking to graduates of Columbia University’s School of the Arts, David Byrne dumped a big bucket of cold water on their career prospects. Rachel Aron, who was there, summarizes: In a slide-show presentation on the auditorium’s projection screen, Byrne showed a series of graphs, based on information compiled by the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project […]
Everyone’s Ark
After reading The Enduring Ark, a children’s book that gives the story of Noah’s ark “a Southeast Asian twist,” Marjorie Ingall considers the tale’s universal appeal: Is it really surprising that the story works in a Bengali context? Every culture is drawn to flood stories. Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Baha’i all share the Noah story […]
The View From Your Window
Melbourne, Australia, 9.35 am
Praise The Lord And Pass The Paycheck
Ted Kluck juxtaposes the public faiths of NFL quarterbacks Tim Tebow and Robert Griffin III: If “mentioning your faith” had a spectrum, Tebow would be on the high end of that spectrum, and Griffin would be on the moderate-to-low end. While public faith was an integral part of the Tebow brand, Griffin seems low-key by […]
Reading Yourself Into The Parables
Michael Peppard advocates a way to shake loose from stale, abstract interpretations of Jesus’s parables: One method for refreshing the parables is to experiment with where one “reads oneself in” to the story. Many of the parables speak to multiple audiences at the same time, as when the Rich Man and Lazarus (Luke 16) brings […]
Greater Than The Sum Of Our Neurons?
Reviewing Curtis White’s new book, The Science Delusion, Mark O’Connell summarizes the non-religious case for a more expansive understanding of truth: White is a nonbeliever, but like a lot of nonbelievers—me included—he’s frustrated...Show More Summary
Climbing A Ladder To The Heavens
George Zarkadakis visited a monastery on Mount Athos, known as the “Christian Tibet,” to experience hesychasm – the “mental prayer” of Eastern Orthodox tradition: In the early 14th century, a Greek theologian named Gregory Palamas produced a synthesis of Orthodox philosophy that has defined the theology of the Eastern church ever since. He founded the contemporary […]
Everyday Idols
Elizabeth Scalia, author of Strange Gods: Unmasking the Idols in Everyday Life, finds them – and not just in the places you’d expect: Perhaps primarily what is strange about our idols — beyond the fact that they are strange gods we were never meant to place before the Creator — is that they are so interior […]
Green To Purple
More tweets from the celebration in Iran, going into the wee hours: #Rouhani: I will try to improve peace in the world by engagement— Abas Aslani (@abasinfo) June 15, 2013 White House:We congratulate the Iranian people 4 their participation in the political process & their courage in making their voices heard— Bahman Kalbasi (@BahmanKalbasi) June […]
Meanwhile, Turkey Is Still Broiling
#EU Min #EgemenBagis says whoever enters #Taksim will be treated as terrorists http://t.co/m3HRFmkeVH #OcccupyGezi #Turkey — A. Yenidunya (@Yenidunya_EA) June 15, 2013 So: 1 million, all terrorists … this could really be quite awkward. Show More Summary
Can Coffee Help You Sober Up?
Nope, not really: [C]affeine can counteract the tiredness induced by alcohol, which might explain why a cup of coffee is popular in many places at the end of a meal. But it can’t remove feelings of drunkenness or some of the cognitive deficits alcohol causes. … It takes approximately an hour for the body to […]
A Female Fap App
Tina Gong is developing HappyPlayTime, an app “that will teach female anatomy and provide lessons on masturbation techniques through a number of minigames”: At the heart of all this is HPT’s mascot: the pink, fleshy, and gleeful personification of a vagina. When I inquired about the nature of the mascot, Tina explained that it goes […]
Rated G Or Rated X?
Hillary Louise Johnson argues that an all-or-nothing approach to sexual expression on the Internet misrepresents how people actually behave: The rise of the privately-held, terms-of-service-governed internet has cultivated a binary view of sex, in which all content is divided into two categories: porn and not-porn. As a result, I can have a G-rated profile on Facebook, […]
Tweet Of The Day
Riot police crush protesters in democratic Turkey while crowds celebrate a peaceful election in streets of theocratic Iran. Quite a world. — Max Fisher (@Max_Fisher) June 15, 2013 (Photo by Instagrammer nifashi)
The First “Howl” On Record
Josh Jones posts the first recorded version of Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl,” read by the poet himself: The story of Howl’s publication begins in 1955, when 29-year-old Ginsberg read part of the poem at the Six Gallery, where [Lawrence] Ferlinghetti—owner of San Francisco’s City Lights bookstore—sat in attendance. Deciding that Ginsberg’s epic lament “knocked the sides […]
Mental Health Break
A technicolor seduction: L’Orange Ft. Erica Lane – Femme Fatale from Carlín Díaz on Vimeo.
What It Feels Like To Be Plagiarized
Charles Hartman describes the discovery that David R. Morgan plagiarized his 1974 poem “A Little Song”: When Morgan mutilated my poem, he was mutilating the tedious and fervent labour, the discovery of what I hadn’t known I meant to mean, and the reward of a single moment of high praise. ‘A Little Song’ has faults, […]
Email Of The Day
An Iranian reader writes: What happened in the last 72 hours of this campaign is one for history books. It was as if the sleeping beauty woke up at the last minute. Over 20 million Iranians have a voted for a guy who was the last man standing. He is not a Mousavi, but he is […]
Face Of The Day
An Iranian woman holds her purple scarf, the campaign color of moderate presidential candidate Hassan Rowhani, as she celebrates along Valiasr street after he was elected as president on June 15, 2013, in the capital Tehran. Rowhani, the cleric who won Iran’s presidential election, has pledged to engage more with world powers in hopes of […]