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...since graphic novels have gotten such a late start in finding a serious-minded audience, the coming-of-age story has only recently gotten enough work to even be called a sub-genre. Two years ago Craig Thompson's mammoth-sized Blankets, about growing up in the devout Christian hinterlands of Wisconsin, became the first such work to gain both critical and popular success. This month will see the arrival of two more very strong books based on the authors' childhood. Harvey Pekar's The Quitter, comes from a veteran comix-maker, while, Shane White's North Country marks...
Confusion has a hold on the largest country of the European Union even two weeks after national elections were held. Never in memory did Germans face such ambiguous results: neither of the two main parties, the center-right Union of Christian Democrats (CDU) and the incumbent Socialist Party (SPD), has achieved the majority required to lead the country, even in coalition with their respective traditional partners, the Liberals for the CDU and the Greens for the SPD. And yet this was an election with a seemingly clear ideological divide: liberal reform to shake Germany out of its economic...
...loathe you firstly, Core Curriculum, because you know not who you are. Once you were a Christian education, then a liberal and general education, and now you are assorted “modes of inquiry”—a term that would be vapid even if it delivered on its promised goods. Is it not baneful that you, Core, are telling lies, that your “approaches to knowledge” exist in name only, that your pedagogy is a ruse which keeps asunder the rigor of departmental courses and the silliness of your look-alikes...
...want to stop the victimization of Africans, first stop thinking of us as victims. Even the most well-intentioned can fall into this superficially benevolent trap, as Christian Aid’s head of policy demonstrated by remarking that “Africa is not a scar, it is a gaping wound.” We all need to stop thinking of Africa as a gash that can be stitched up by so-called “developed nations” and their aid agencies, and start thinking of Africa as a continent of people who have the potential...
...Christian right has found its strategy--inclusion, prayer, the promise of change--and the gay movement has found one--GSAs, scholarships, the promise of acceptance. But what of the kids themselves? In July, I met 30 way-out-and-proud LGBT youths at a Michigan retreat arranged by the Point Foundation; these high-achieving Point scholars are getting from $4,000 to $30,000 a year to pay for their educations and are considered by some gays to be the movement's future leaders. A few days later at Exodus' Youth Day in North Carolina, I interviewed...