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From the new editor of Broad Street Review
'The world's most assertive Quaker'
Who is Judy Weightman, and what is she doing with Broad Street Review?
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4 minute read
Chris Christie in the spotlight
The politician as drama queen
People go into public service for many reasons, but at least some of them do so because they’re frustrated actors or audience junkies. Chris Christie’s self-dramatization may be extreme, but it’s hardly unique.
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David Brooks confronts legal marijuana
A Times columnist at the moral precipice
Is it too much to ask a New York Times columnist to spend even five minutes wondering why it’s OK to legalize alcohol, nicotine, uppers, and downers but culturally destructive to legalize pot?
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The editor steps down
Phase Two at BSR: The adventure continues
After eight years as editor of BSR, I’ve concluded that it's time for both BSR and me to recharge our batteries.
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5 minute read
The population debate (A reply)
A distant mirror: England’s population crisis of 1650
England faced a genuine crisis in the 17th Century when its population nearly doubled. But today England comfortably houses ten times as many people as it did then. So why does no one talk of an English population explosion today? And why was the Earth even more chaotic when there were no humans at all?
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Swarthmore’s Hillel controversy
What’s a college for, after all?
What’s it mean to be an enlightened Jew these days? For that matter, what’s it mean to be an enlightened Catholic? Should you silence offensive ideas and people, or should you try to engage them in dialogue?
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4 minute read
Mandela and Bush
A tale of two presidents
To Nelson Mandela, public life was a sacred calling for which he was prepared to die, if necessary. To George W. Bush, it was an awesome if temporary personal experience.
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6 minute read
Score one for population growth
Benjamin Franklin’s energy solution
While you were worrying about population growth and energy shortages, one obscure member of the human race may have eliminated the problem. Reason to be grateful he was born, yes?
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2 minute read
The Inquirer’s squabbling owners
Where are the grownups?
To much rejoicing in the Inquirer newsroom, a Philadelphia judge last week reinstated Bill Marimow as the newspaper’s editor. But the critical question for Philadelphians, I would argue, is not who edits the Inquirer but who owns it. The answer isn’t reassuring.
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Editor's Digest
Art institutions that deserve to fail.Opera makes less sense than ever. The economic value of an arts education.Hollywood plotlines are still sidelining women. How postmodernism killed the avant garde.
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