Archive for January, 2007



On Jesus Camp (and going to one)

Lizzie invited me to last night’s screening of Jesus Camp. I went, with some trepidation. “It’s okay,” she told me, as the opening credits started. “You’re sitting next to a Jew.” I tend to shrink from reimmersion in the whacked-out, storefront-church world of my childhood. Also, I worried that the tone of the film might be broadly mocking, and I . . .

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All hail TPM Muckraker

Josh Marshall’s hiring of bloggers who “devote their working days to tracking down and breaking news” is a “model that the newspapers should be noting with interest.”

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