Mark Dunbar
Posts by Mark Dunbar (page 8)
TV Review: Reza Aslan’s Believer
The tone of Reza Aslan’s new television series Believer is a curious mixture of snobbishness and inclusivity. In it, the author and religious scholar immerses himself... Read More
To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death
BOOK BY MARK O'CONNELL DOUBLEDAY, 2017 256 PP.; $26.95 To Be a Machine by versatile literary journalist Mark O’Connell is a travelogue about the... Read More
Film Review: The Case for Christ
Since I started writing film reviews, I’ve done three on movies that could properly be labeled as “right-wing,” either in a religious or political... Read More
Book Review: Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism
Camille Paglia has the instincts of a court jester and the tastes of a bank manager. Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism is her third... Read More
Film Review: The Shack
How bad is the scripture-based humor in The Shack, a film that hit theaters Friday and is being promoted as an uplifting spiritual journey? When... Read More
Book Review: Materialism
Both left- and right-wing intellectuals agree that metaphysical convictions (our ideas about the fundamentals of reality) have social and political implications. The former's reasons for... Read More
The Susceptible Mind: How the Internet Enables Hard Hearts and Soft Heads
It's getting late and the crowded bar is starting to thin out. I have a half-drunken glass of beer in front of me that’s... Read More