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The question of how much the Internet will change the Middle East, or other dictatorships, has swirled in recent years. Egyptians authorities have clamped down on bloggers in a number of high-profile cases. But news seeks light, as Cairo is finding out. Now Mubarak faces a new enemy: Facebook. More than 2,000 Egyptians have joined…

CNN called as I was on the Brooklyn Bridge this morning reporting that my appearance has been bumped by Larry Craig playing footsie with the justice system and a terror plot in Germany.

My appearance on CNN scheduled for last week, has now been scheduled for [Update: 8:30 AM] Wednesday morning. To refresh, this grew out of the TIME cover on Mother Teresa and her doubts about faith and the question I was asked to address was whether doubt and faith can coexist. Since the initial booking, the…

I’m bumping this entry back to the fore today because it’s experiencing increased traffic. I’m the father of two-year-old girls, so I’ve not faced the issue of whether to circumcise my children or not. My guess is that my wife and I would have chosen to do it. I agree that it does feel like…

Howard Dean tells Muslims to run for office to get their message heard. Smart. The GOP ignores the largest Muslim gathering in the country. Stupid. Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean told American Muslims gathered in Rosemont to think beyond voter registration drives. “You need to run for political office,” Dean said Saturday. “The only…

Valedictorians strike me as people who know how to follow instructions. Hardly the rebellious type. I should know. I was the Valedicotrian of the Savannah Country Day School class of 1983. And my honor came with a speech, as such honors usually do. Mine was probably six or seven minutes, if I had to guess,…

I’ve wanted to try this restaurant in Chicago ever since my friends at GOURMET announced last October that it was the best in the country. Now, a devastating article explaining how its master chef has tongue cancer: A year after chef Grant Achatz opened Alinea here in 2005, Gourmet magazine named the restaurant the best…

My brother passed along this summary from the WSJ about a TNR article on the booming number of converts to the Russian Orthodox church among disenchanted evangelicals: The Orthodox Church is attracting an increasing number of disenchanted evangelical Christians in the U.S. who say they are seeking a more traditional religious practice, Jason Zengerle reports…

A sudden surge in talk about bombing Iran in coming weeks. My email box got a few hits this weekend from friends pointing to articles about the idea that the U.S. might bomb Iran in coming weeks. The talk seems to be of a preemptive wave of airstrikes. This corresponds to fears expressed by a…

CNN decided at the last minute to postpone our interview until sometime next week, closer to the anniversary of her death, which of course came just a few weeks after the death of her friend Princess Diana. I’ve taken the time to begin reading the new book that’s causing all the hullabaloo, and brush up…
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