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Ah, the blessed perks of absolute monarchy. Pope Benedict XVI is one who knows them well. The 265th successor of St. Peter is the unchallenged head of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics, with the last word on everything from the naming of bishops to his regular rewritings in stone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pope Meets His Opposite Number | 11/24/2006 | See Source »

In his classic story collection about the Vietnam War, Tim O'Brien wrote that what G.I.'s carried into battle was determined by necessity, specialty and rank, and "to some extent by superstition." Three decades later, the 145,000 Americans serving in Iraq rely on their own talismans to protect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Things They Carry | 11/13/2006 | See Source »

Few today would argue that the news industry is anything but that: an industry. That is to say, it competes to sell a product, turn a profit, and do it all over again the next day. The major news networks—and they are “networks?...

Author: By Brendan D.B. Hodge | Title: The Ship of Truth | 11/9/2006 | See Source »

8) Don't look away from anything. Blessed with a farmer's unsentimental eye, Munro offers up a clear, highly practical explanation of how you kill a trapped fox.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: How to Write A Short Story | 11/5/2006 | See Source »

Dawkins explains that morality developed in a similar vein. Morality—in the form of kindness, altruism, generosity, empathy, and pity—is nothing more than “misfirings, Darwinian mistakes: blessed, precious mistakes,” he explains. Morality is the by-product of kin altruism...

Author: By Eric W. Lin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Dawkins Says God Is Not Dead, But He Should Be | 11/1/2006 | See Source »

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