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Scottoline: Doyenne of transportation metaphors.

Philadelphia writers, seen from the future

‘The Age of Scottoline,' or: The Athens of America, 2010

It was the dawn of a Golden Age: the Age of Fried and Bissinger, of Platt and Scottoline— yes, of Yoo and Santorum and countless other literary luminaries whose destinies converged on the bustling sidewalks of Nutter's Philadelphia.
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

Editorials 7 minute read
'I'm like nobody else,' she insisted.

My neighbor, Lena Horne

Lena Horne, between black and white

Lena Horne was a beautiful and talented woman, justly embittered by the labels American society pasted on her. As her neighbor in New York in the ‘50s and ‘60s, I witnessed some of that bitterness firsthand.
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

Editorials 5 minute read
Obama denounced the Court's ruling, but his election victory suggests otherwise.

Free speech for corporations? Yes

Let the corporations speak!

Is free speech for corporations a threat to democracy? Most leading liberal voices presume that it is. As an editor who has spent much of his career fighting for free speech for everyone, I would argue the contrary: Free speech for corporations actually benefits democracy.
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

Editorials 6 minute read
Elizabeth: No window into men's souls?

A Supreme Court without Protestants

America's Protestant crisis

When Justice John Paul Stevens retires this summer, he will leave the Supreme Court without any Protestant justice at all for the first time in history. Protestants are being dislodged from other sectors of society as well. Is God trying to tell us something?
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

Editorials 5 minute read
One strategy Yasser Arafat overlooked.

The perils of free association

When Palestinians convert (and other perils of free association)

The Christian Legal Society, an evangelical student group, appears to have run into a problem that neither law nor religion can solve: Non-Christians keep joining it and passing non-Christian resolutions. If faith can't solve this conundrum, surely human ingenuity can.
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

Editorials 4 minute read
Inside the Barnes: The main story, or just a footnote?

Collectors, artists and Albert Barnes

The test that Albert Barnes failed

Set aside the legal issues surrounding the Barnes Foundation's coming move. The more fascinating question isn't legal but philosophical: Ultimately, whose vision should take precedence— the artist's, or the collector's?
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

Editorials 6 minute read
Could this be the culprit?

The pointless search for Barnes villains

Who appointed Richard Glanton? (and other questions for Barnes conspiracy buffs)

The Barnes Foundation's move from Merion to the Parkway may be an artistic tragedy, but the relentless search for villains is a misguided distraction. If there's any villain in this saga, it's Albert Barnes himself, who imposed so many restrictions on his Barnes Foundation that no sane philanthropist would help rescue the place until his trust was broken.
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

Editorials 6 minute read
St. Peter: Sure-fire formula for abuse.

Priestly sex abuse: Why Catholicism?

The Catholic elephant in the room

Given the onerous requirements of the priestly vocation, the remarkable thing about Roman Catholic priests is not that so many of them are sexual abusers, but that so many of them aren't.
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

Editorials 4 minute read
In hard times, nice people turn desperate.

"Annie' without the Depression

Updating Annie: Just one slight problem…

Annie wasn't much of a show to begin with. Now its original target audience is dying out. Does that mean its setting— the Great Depression of the '30s— should be scrapped?
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

Editorials 4 minute read
This is no job for a journalist; this is a job for Ricky Nelson.

A Governor's Romance (song)

A Governor's Romance

When a governor is caught with his pants down, who will defend him? Where is the Bellini or Verdi who can do justice to such tragedy? BSR's gonzo lyricist Dan Rottenberg rushes in where others fear to tread.
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

Editorials 2 minute read