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On the floor of the SXSW Interactive trade show

Innocents In Austin: Buying and selling at South by Southwest

Culture |  For all its hipness, the festival is still a trade show, and we capitalists mean that as a compliment

Selena Gomez arrives for the premiere of <i>Spring Breakers</i> at SXSW 2013.

Innocents in Austin: Settling in at SXSW

Culture |  So much to see, so little time, and it ain’t what it used to be

Stephen Baldwin

Christian Baldwin brother resolves tax dispute

Culture |  Outspoken Christian actor Stephen Baldwin has resolved a tax dispute with the State of New York and will not be sent to jail. Under the agreement, announced…

SXSW attendees crowd the Austin Convention Center Saturday.

Innocents in Austin: The good, the bad, and the ugly

Culture |  South by Southwest 2013 has a lot to teach us about the state of culture in America

Parliament of Iceland

Feminists fight porn in liberal Iceland

Culture |  The liberal country of Iceland is taking on the seemingly conservative task of banning pornography—both in print and online—to protect the country’s…

Florence Colgate

Beauty is in the eye of the … mathematician?

Family |  Whoever said that beauty is in the eye of the beholder didn’t know his numbers. Last year, 18-year-old Florence Colgate, won a British beauty contest based…

A great delusion
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A great delusion

Culture |  When perversity proliferates, our very fundamentals perish

William Moody as Paul Bearer

Paul Bearer could not conquer death

Culture |  In the 19th century Americans spoke often about death and rarely about sex. In the 21st century we’ve reversed that approach. We’ve turned the devil into…

Why twentysomethings shouldn’t go it alone

Culture |  I recently listened to experts (that is, people who have written a book) on a radio program discussing how those in their 20s should live their lives. (I am…

A vanishing generation

Culture |  For a long time I’ve thought that people would one day wake up and notice how far the nation has drifted from morality and would be horrified and long for…

California Baptist University

Transgender student sues Baptist college over reality check

Culture |  A transgender student is suing California Baptist University for expelling him in 2011 after he claimed he was a female despite his male anatomy. Domaine…

Confessions of a 25-year-old Christian virgin

Confessions of a 25-year-old Christian virgin

Culture |  It’s hard being one of the few not ‘doing it’

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