Archives: September 2013
Report
The Vatican’s New Clothes: Very Small Embryonic-Like Cells and Faith in Evidence Not Seen
Once upon a time, and not so long ago, the scientific world beheld a new kind of cell that, when captured at just the right … By Ann Neumann
Essay
Spike Lee’s “4 Little Girls” and the Aftershocks of the Birmingham Church Bombing
I was watching Spike Lee’s documentary 4 Little Girls when the verdict in the Trayvon Martin case was handed down. An alert flashed on my … By Briallen Hopper
Essay
On Anti-Semitic Tropes and the Naming of the Federal Reserve Chair
In a scene from the 2010 film The Social Network, the actor who portrays Larry Summers brushes off the WASPy Winklevoss twins, who come to … By Rachel Gordan