Tonight at 10 on NBC, television viewers with meet Dan Vasser (Kevin McKidd) on “Journeyman,” an interesting new drama about a man who suddenly finds himself ripped from moments in his everyday life–getting into a cab, waking up in his bed, even driving a car–to find that he has jumped years and sometimes even decades…

In William Golding’s “Lord of the Flies,” Piggy tells Ralph that he swims “half-bad.” In British English, this is a compliment–a positive connotation that speakers of American English have difficulty wrapping their heads around. But either meaning can be applied to CBS’s controversial “Kid Nation,” a reality show loosely based on “The Lord of The…

Flip the channels on your TV, and you’ll find tons of wonderful sitcoms and dramas featuring strong, profound female characters. The time is ripe for women on television, a sentiment driven home when America Ferrera took home the Emmy for best actress in a comedy this week for her portrayal of the feisty, loveable Betty…

It is human nature to contemplate Big Questions about death, the stunning fragility of life, and even, occasionally, to wish for immortality. Christians believe in resurrection and hope for an eternity of bliss in heaven, and Hindus pray to exchange their ticket on the endless wheel of death and rebirth, death and rebirth, for moksha–the…

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