Medford, “the new spiritual, culinary, and trendsetting capital of Massachusetts.”
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Buddhist neurology.
“These are the Olympic athletes, the gold medalists, of meditation.”
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Who took my statute of limitations?
Suing “over gold allegedly stolen in biblical times during the Jewish exodus from Egypt.”
“How a group of turn-of-the-century Cambridge women made America safe for yoga.”
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MLK’s strategist.
Bayard Rustin’s homosexuality finds a sympathetic hearing, but his socialism does not.
“The reliance on historic analogies is an evasion of the particular, indeed novel, political complexities that face us now, complexities that have emerged since (but are not solely the result of) September 11.”
John Updike reviews books about Ralph Waldo Emerson.
“But what are the serious alternatives to the nation-state as a form of political life?”
A sociologist tells the writer that “with the involvement of religious groups, Americans can recognize antiwar activists as ‘a favorite aunt or Ned Flanders.’” Great.
The Quakers believed that righteousness would emerge from personal conscience; the Puritans believed that righteousness would be enforced (or “cultivated,” in the Unitarian version) by social institutions.