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...Andrew G. Maher ’11 and Jonathan P. Hawley ’10, canvassing is nothing new. Maher is a New Hampshire native who has canvassed the area in the past and who interned with the New Hampshire Democratic Coordinated Campaign. Hawley had previously worked for a Republican—California Governor Arnold Schwarznegger...
...After donning the requisite Obama stickers, the pair head to Penacook, a town north of Concord. Maher and Hawley form a smooth, optimistic team—when voters supported Obama but were undecided on congressional candidates, Maher reminded them that Obama would need large Democratic majorities in the House and Senate in order to push through his agenda...
Religulous Bill Maher's whirlwind of a documentary is deeply felt, rigorous, outraged and the good kind of smart-alecky...
...Religulous,” while sure to put Maher on a million shit-lists, challenges what we take for granted in religion, as both a phenomenon and institution. Despite its inevitable bias and self-commentating nature, the film speaks for itself—and it speaks loudly, passionately, and presciently. The job of a comedian is to attack sensitive issues in society in a way that both innocently mocks and pointedly slanders. Maher succeeds, probing into old wounds that refuse to heal. An anthropological affront, “Religulous” reminds us that religion looks a lot like mental...
...York to the resolve of the passengers of the Arbella. The book could just as easily be a conversation with the author herself.“The Wordy Shipmates” is a gem, and Vowell’s ambitious and rewarding work to date. Unlike her contemporaries Bill Maher and Lewis Black, who use a skewed view of American history to point out its flaws, Vowell exhibits a deeply sympathetic perspective for American figures both past and present, and in doing so, she evokes the same in her audience. —Staff writer Ryan J. Meehan...