
Michael Brendan Dougherty
Michael Brendan Dougherty is senior correspondent at TheWeek.com. He is the founder and editor of The Slurve, a newsletter about baseball. His work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, ESPN Magazine, Slate and The American Conservative.
Latest articles by Michael Brendan Dougherty
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The pure pleasure of baseball's Opening Dayfeature The baseball diamond is a refuge.
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The 14 most intriguing human beings playing baseball
feature From Bryce Harper to Yasiel Puig
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The pure pleasure of baseball's Opening Dayopinion The baseball diamond is a refuge from cultural and political contention
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The insane national freak-out over Indiana's religious freedom lawopinion In a truly pluralistic society, we would respect Indiana's choice
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The flawed Apostles of Holy Thursdayfeature Holy Thursday reminds us that even saints were once men
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Why it may be impossible to raise 'free range kids'opinion The decline of the American neighborhood has inhibited our ability to instill self-reliance in our children
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Facebook wants to cut a deal with publishers. They should refuse.opinion Facebook has all but admitted that its own user-generated content isn't good enough
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Pro sports' next Moneyball revolution isn't in stats — it's in healthopinion We have enough number crunchers. Let's get some biometrics experts.
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Gerry Adams, and the burden of the livingopinion Adams could easily have been a martyr. Instead he chose peace.
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Corporate America is colonizing your mind. And you're letting them.opinion To overcome this threat, you have to make peace with the sounds of silence
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Why the next religious revival in the West may be Islamicopinion Islam is more relevant than ever, which means the West will have to find a place for it in political discourse
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What Richard Dawkins gets wrong about raising children religiousopinion The famous atheist says parents shouldn't force their religions opinions on children. But it's not that simple.
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The glorious return of the egg: Why Uncle Sam is a horrible nutritionistopinion Decades of industry-corrupted science and lobbyist-corrupted government unfairly maligned a delicious and healthy food staple
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The U.S. arming Ukraine would be a horrible mistakeopinion The delusions of our foreign policy class are not worth saving
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The disaster of Kosovo should be a warning to all humanitarian interventionistsopinion Kosovo's crumbling state is proof that there is no such thing as an easy intervention
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Meet the costume-wearing Irish priest who saved thousands of Romans from the Nazisfeature Known as the Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican, Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty cut a unique figure in the church
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How Pope Francis allows politics to distort the Christian faithopinion The pontiff's outsized presence only serves to obscure the church's teaching
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My love affair with cookbooksfeature What does it say when your nighttime reading is a dense tome on Irish cooking?
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My love affair with cookbooksopinion What does it say when your nighttime reading is a dense tome on Irish cooking?
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The Charlie Hebdo attacks show that not all blasphemies are equalopinion Islam cannot be lumped with Christianity
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The Charlie Hebdo massacre, and secularism's problem with Islamopinion Secularism grew out of a fear of a religious majority. What happens when it's applied to a religious minority with a violent fringe?
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John R. MacArthur says the internet makes bad journalism. He has a point.opinion The publisher of Harper's has been mocked for failing to adapt to the internet era. But maybe the joke's on the rest of us.
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The demagoguery of Ted Cruz and his cheerleaders in the conservative mediaopinion Cruz has been rightly vilified for his shameful remarks to a group of persecuted Middle Eastern Christians. But there's plenty of blame to go around.
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Republicans: Now is the time to admit you were wrong about the Iraq Waropinion The GOP must undo the damage to its foreign policy brand
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