Category: Media Scan

The Style of Intellectual Celebrity No matter what one thought of the late Edward Said’s politics or the question of fibs in his autobiog­raphy, the Columbia literature profes­sor became an intellectual celebrity. He was a chaired academic who exploit­ed his minority moniker, in his case Arab American, to command larger stag­es than his classrooms, much …

During the decade 1990–2000, churches failed to gain members at the same rate that the total U.S. population grew. The proof can be found in The World Almanac. Because of reporting delays, the 1992 and 2002 editions approximately cover the last decade of the Christian “millennium.” One might have thought that churches would have been …