The Enlightenment Diet
Bruce Feiler is the author of Walking the Bible and Abraham and the host of Walking the Bible on PBS. His new book, America’s Prophet: Moses and the American Story, is published Oct. 6.
Fasting is a practice that Jews and Muslims, believers and scientists, Deepak Chopra and Glenn Beck all embrace. But does going without food really deliver spiritual and physical benefits? Bruce Feiler investigates.
Sanford's Dereliction of Duty Trumps His Hypocrisy
Paul Begala is a CNN political contributor and a research professor at Georgetown University's Public Policy Institute. He was a senior strategist for the 1992 Clinton-Gore campaign and served as counselor to President Clinton in the White House.
That the South Carolina governor stepped out on his wife is his business, writes Paul Begala-though it does underscore the GOP's culture of hypocrisy. Stepping out on his job, however, is the business of the people of South Carolina.
Time for a Male Anti-Sex Pill
Matt Miller is a management consultant, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, and the host of public radio’s popular political week-in-review, Left, Right & Center. His new book is The Tyranny of Dead Ideas.
In the wake of the Sanford scandal, the only hope for American public life not becoming an endlessly embarrassing comic opera now lies with Big Pharma. The nation needs a new Manhattan Project-and this one should have bipartisan support.
Sanford May Have to Take a Hike, After All
Kathleen Parker is a syndicated columnist with the Washington Post Writers Group and author of Save the Males.
Anyone with a heartbeat felt for the South Carolina governor during his awkward, drawn-out press conference. But his lying to the public and going AWOL might add up to a quick exit from office.
Right Place, Wrong Pope
Matt Beynon Rees is an award-winning journalist and former Jerusalem bureau chief for Time magazine, who has been based out of the Middle East since 1996. He is the author of Cain's Field: Faith, Fratricide, and Fear in the Middle East, a nonfiction account of Israeli and Palestinian society. He is also the author of the Omar Yussef series of Palestinian crime novels, including The Collaborator of Bethlehem and The Samaritan’s Secret, which was published in February.
As Pope Benedict XVI touches down in Israel with a much-needed reconciliation agenda, earlier actions in his papacy all but ensure a visit that divides more than it heals.
Why Are Christians Having Better Sex Than the Rest of Us?
Tucker Carlson is a contributor to the Fox News Channel. He previously hosted The Situation with Tucker Carlson and Tucker on MSNBC after working for CNN.
A Texas pastor has come up with one of the best public policy proposals of the decade: have more sex.
I recommend The Bible in 90 Days, a fantastic reading challenge for all Christians - read the Bible, cover to cover, in 3 months. As a devout Christian, I am bombarded with powerful declarations of what a Christian life looks like in tod...
Sherron Watkins is the former Vice President of Enron Corporation who alerted then-CEO Ken Lay in August 2001 to accounting irregularities within the company. Time magazine named her as one of their 2002 Persons of the Year. Ms. Watkins is co-author with Mimi Swartz of Power Failure, the Inside Story of the Collapse of Enron.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Jacob Bernstein is a senior reporter at The Daily Beast. Previously, he was a features writer at WWD and W Magazine. He has also written for New York magazine, Paper, and The Huffington Post.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
Jacki Zehner is the President of the Jacquelyn and Gregory Zehner Family Foundation and a Founding Partner of Circle Financial Group. She blogs at www.pursepundit.blogspot.com.
The Rev. Dr. Katharine Rhodes Henderson is the President of Auburn Theological Seminary in New York City, an institute for religious leadership, founded in 1818 with a history of commitment to progressive social causes from abolition of slavery to women's rights. She blogs at newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith.
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