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Alex Beam

Alex Beam

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Jesus at 2024: How a new generation is rediscovering faith

Spirituality surges as young Americans seek hope in turbulent times.

06.12.2024 9

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My plan for surviving the next four years

I have options.

25.11.2024 10

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Meet the artist ‘Clark Rockefeller’

The con artist has been busy as a painter and journalist while serving his sentence at San Quentin.

11.11.2024 30

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The ghosts of the NFL

Derek Stingley Jr. is the grandson of the player some of us Patriots fans will never forget.

25.10.2024 9

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On second thought, it’s a work of genius!

Take heart, shipwrecks, real and figurative.

12.10.2024 10

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Is Costco the center of the universe?

Now I feel like I know a thing or two about Costco, and to know it is to admire it.

26.09.2024 30

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What’s the next big thing?

A thing is with us until it isn’t, but its disappearance will go unrecorded. One day it will simply no longer be a thing.

13.09.2024 20

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Democrats are choosing joy. How much of it can one nation endure?

For Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, it’s the perfect moment to dial down the joy and happiness. Joy can lead only to trouble.

29.08.2024 10

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Harris vs. Trump, hope vs. despair

Where would you rather live? In Trump’s bleak dystopia or in Harris’s world, nurturing a sliver of hope for a better future?

15.08.2024 10

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Whose ‘Lord of the Rings’ is it anyway?

LOTR is a work of literature, not propaganda. It belongs to no faction or ideology, despite fans’ and critics’ insistence on shaping it to their...

02.08.2024 20

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The dog days are here

Dogs have been on a heady run of late, no pun intended.

19.07.2024 20

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The magnificent Epsteins

The Epsteins are simultaneously great and commonplace.

05.07.2024 20

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Just us plants talking

Suddenly plant sentience, or awareness, and the possibility of plant intelligence, and even legal rights for plants, are hotly debated concerns.

07.06.2024 20

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To be on the right side of history

History is more like a succession of random events to which we later assign certain meanings. Its complicated perspectives are hard to see, in real...

23.05.2024 20

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The sum of all borezzzzz

It dawned on me that I could provide a useful public service: A Field Guide to the American Bore.

10.05.2024 40

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Woody Allen, the headache no one wants

The American movie industry has essentially benched him. But I think Allen is a brilliant writer, and “Coup de Chance” is strikingly beautiful.

26.04.2024 20

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‘The problem of goodness’

The good life has been a problem since time immemorial. In the mythological Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve experienced perfect bliss, and it was a drag.

11.04.2024 40

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The Ukraine-Russia war needs to end now, at the conference table

It’s painful to admit that the war in Ukraine has turned out as Putin might have expected.

28.03.2024 10

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How am I doing? AI says: Fair to middling, you ignorant sloth.

The brave new world of AI-powered job reviews sounds like the daily diary of the American nightmare to me.

16.03.2024 40

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For Lent (or any other time), I’m giving up on giving up

It’s time to strike a blow against Americans’ obsession with self-denial.

02.03.2024 20

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Can rowing save your soul?

Why is everyone rowing? Because it’s great, that’s why.

15.02.2024 80

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It’s the end of the world as we know it; do you feel fine?

If it’s the apocalypse, "let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die."

01.02.2024 10

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‘We are all plagiarists now’: What I learned from checking my own writing, and Bill Belichick’s

The program told me to “replace the word gizmo” in the column about gizmos. It also told me to “correct your spelling” of the word...

15.01.2024 10

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Is Taylor Swift dating the wrong NFL superstar?

Forget Travis Kelce. Tom Brady, a.k.a. the Greatest of All Time, is ready, rested, and available.

05.01.2024 9

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Vibe check on 2023

Vibes now dominate the whispering of the spheres, whether it be the will-o’-the-wisp 'vibecession,' the ongoing obsession with 'vibe...

22.12.2023 20

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Politicians look to God and the Bible to do their heavy lifting

Is God listening? Hard to say.

07.12.2023 20

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