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Summer Streaming Staff Picks

By The Editors

July 5, 2017

Television

Terry O’Quinn (left) and Michael Dorman in the Amazon series ‘Patriot’ / Amazon

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Summer Streaming Staff Picks: ‘Patriot’

An unconventional, quirky series with the trappings of an espionage thriller, plus a whole lot more

July 2, 2017

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Summer Streaming Staff Picks: ‘Long Strange Trip’

Deadheads being Deadheads will respond rapturously to this long documentary; agnostics may be no more likely to convert

July 4, 2017

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Summer Streaming Staff Picks: ‘The Bachelorette’

We’re in Bachelor World now, and it has its own rules

July 6, 2017

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Summer Streaming Staff Picks: ‘Girls’

Dunham expertly cuts to the core of one of New York’s principal character traits: self-importance

July 5, 2017

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Summer Streaming Staff Picks: ‘Broad City’

Fighting the faux feminism of the upper class

By Regina Munch

July 6, 2017

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Aziz Ansari in ‘Master of None’ / Netflix

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Summer Streaming Staff Picks: ‘Master of None’

A very likable show that also tries hard to be likable

By Ellen B. Koneck

July 6, 2017

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Must Reads

Politics

Engaging Confederate Nostalgia

For those of us who have a visceral objection to Confederate Memorial Day, how should we engage a worldview that embraces the mythology of the Lost Cause?

By Richard Brown

May 10, 2023

Religion

St. Philip Neri’s Eucharistic Joy

Philip Neri is just the kind of saint we need: a model of lightness of spirit, divine laughter, and extraordinary ordinariness.

By John Rodden

May 26, 2023

Culture

Reckoning With Birth

Birth is one of humanity’s most under-explored subjects. Minimizing birth diminishes one of the greatest powers humans have had: the creation of life itself.

By Jennifer Banks

May 26, 2023