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How do you feel evangelicals are portrayed in the media? The media often portrays evangelicals as brainwashed, simpleminded and angry. My book isn't the story of falling in love with everybody. There were some people who seemed to sit perfectly into the picture that I'd always had of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going Undercover Among Evangelicals | 4/5/2010 | See Source »

Third, more Ross Perots. Vicious-circle politics thrives because while gridlock sours the public on both parties, the out-of-government party (particularly if it's also the antigovernment party) benefits anyway. That might change were our political system filled with latter-day Perots, cranky independent candidates determined to punish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Washington Is Tied Up in Knots | 2/18/2010 | See Source »

Hip-hop causes violence. This is a very common argument that's been made pretty much from the beginning. There are a number of things that are wrong with this. One is that it posits an incredibly simpleminded causal relationship between music that has violent narrative in it and actual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tricia Rose, Author of The Hip Hop Wars | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

Which management guru came up with the Cheese principle? Answer: Spencer Johnson, who is neither an M.B.A. nor a corporate veteran. He's an M.D. who trained at the Mayo Clinic and Harvard Medical School. He has written 10 other best-selling business books. Johnson knows that some people find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business Books | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

I don't think I've seen - at least since equally offensive concentration camp fable, Life Is Beautiful - a movie so reliant on human stupidity to achieve its effect, so totally dishonest in its insistence on that quality (which it presents as innocence) to achieve its narrative goals. Bruno and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas: A Failed Holocaust Fable | 11/7/2008 | See Source »

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