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“I don’t know what I’m doing,” Philip Seymour Hoffman laments quietly to an optimistic, uncomprehending Michelle Williams in “Synecdoche, New York.” Hoffman, a playwright and recent recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship, is...
It’s time to dust off the cover of “The Prophet” by Kahlil Gibran. This slim volume of poetic essays is most likely to be found on your parents’ bookshelf—if they were hippies—or in a...
What the World Needs Now I appreciated Michael Kinsley's essay on the desirable leadership quality that is toxic to mention because of its allegedly élitist overtones: intelligence [Oct. 27]. I have long felt that U.S. presidential candidates, much like graduate students, should be subject to a preliminary examination...
Yet Obama, derided as so ethereal compared with the battle-tested McCain, was the clear-eyed realist in the room; he was a child of change - changed countries and cultures and careers, even his very name: Barry became Barack. You can't stop change from coming, he argued; you can...
Pope Benedict's provocative 2006 University of Regensburg speech about faith and violence concluded with a warm and heady encouragement for Muslims to partake "in the dialogue of cultures."