Bono and Helms Model Acceptance

In a June 2001 column, religion columnist Terry Mattingly writes:

As lunch ended in the ornate U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee conference room, ...

Music Influences a Teen Killer

"I used to think, This ain't affecting me, you'd have to be weak-minded to let this stuff affect you, and the whole time it affected me." ...

Rocker Scott Stapp's Spiritual Struggles

In a Spin interview, Scott Stapp, the lead singer of Creed, discusses the impact his strict religious upbringing has had on his life:

"I tell you, ...

Christina Ricci's Self-Mutilation

In a Rolling Stone interview, Christina Ricci talks about self-mutilation and pain when a teenager:

She stretches; her sleeves ride up; there are raised ...

Scott Weiland Defines Humility

Convicted for possession of drugs, member of rock band Stone Temple Pilots, Scott Weiland talked to Rolling Stone about how being in jail impacted his ...

The Life of an Insight

A new insight is quite sound when a master uses it, cheapens as it becomes popular, and is unendurable when it is merely fashionable.

The New Doublespeak

In The New Doublespeak: Why No One Knows What Anyone's Saying Anymore, author William Lutz defines a few of the more creative doublespeak terms currently ...

European Ideals, or Merely Fashion?

The men who created the European ideal ... believed it to mean a commitment to certain political values: social pluralism, political democracy, human ...

Cool Addicts

Everybody knows that TV is mostly false and stupid, that almost no one pays that much attention to it--and yet it's on for over seven hours a day ...

Our Circuitous World View

The production of art and entertainment for commercial reasons is an old story; what may be new is the elevation of this practice into a principle, and ...