Author Archives: Eve Tushnet

About Eve Tushnet

Eve Tushnet is a writer in Washington, DC. She blogs at Patheos and has written for Commonweal, USA Today, and the Weekly Standard, among other publications. She is working on a book on vocation for gay Catholics. Her email is eve_tushnet@yahoo.com and she can be found on Twitter at @evetushnet.

No Place to Stand: “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”

Posted on May 16, 2013

TRAILER – The Reluctant Fundamentalist from PartyLiciouS Entertainment on Vimeo. Both the …

Beyond Critical Thinking

Posted on April 28, 2013

Critical thinking has so thoroughly colonized our idea of education that we …

Lost in the Cosmos, On a Bike: “4000 Miles”

Posted on April 6, 2013

“4000 Miles,” playing at the Studio Theatre in DC through May 5, …

Sister Outsider: ‘Beyond the Hills’

Posted on March 21, 2013

The movie’s portrayal of faith and love goes beyond the usual secular-versus-religious nostrums.

‘The Advertising Comrade’

Posted on March 8, 2013

In “No,” the new satire about the ad campaigns waged by both …

Sparrows and Fathers

Posted on March 6, 2013

Spurred by Rod’s post on fatherhood in “Portlandia”, I’ve been thinking about …

The Armies of the Prince of Peace: “The Convert” at Woolly Mammoth

Posted on February 18, 2013

“Love of one is a barbarism; for it is exercised at the …

“I Think My Liver Hurts”: Re-reading Dostoyevsky Sober

Posted on February 3, 2013

Last year I quit drinking, and read a ton of Dostoyevsky. Sadly, …

‘Amour’: The Family Plot

Posted on January 15, 2013

As we handed over our tickets to see Michael Haneke’s Oscar-nominated “Amour,” …

Engagement Inflation

Posted on January 11, 2013

Marriage proposals are getting bigger and flashier.

A New Story, in the Field of Abortion-Haunted Horror Films

Posted on January 8, 2013

In 2008 I wrote “Grotesquerie and Grief: Abortion in Horror Media,” which …

A Quick Gulp of Yale’s Enormous New Art Gallery

Posted on December 23, 2012

This is just a note to say that I checked out the …

‘Time of the Wolf’

Posted on December 17, 2012

The Time of the Wolf from Alistair Lax on Vimeo. I recently …

Reference of Frame

Posted on November 30, 2012

The challenge of identity in portraiture

The Middle of Sexual Identity

Posted on November 28, 2012

A little while ago I mentioned that I finished Jenell Williams Paris’s …

Hedonist, Disciple or Bourgeois?

Posted on November 10, 2012

I recently finished Jenell Williams Paris’s book The End of Sexual Identity. …

Margaret Atwood Gets Her Dystopia

Posted on November 5, 2012

Probably not where she expected it. The feminist author retweeted a post …

‘Deadline – USA’

Posted on October 23, 2012

Every year the AFI theater in Silver Spring puts on a “DC …

The Mountain Goats: Disco Purgatorio

Posted on October 9, 2012

Since we’re talking about Christ-haunted indie music … first, you guys should listen …

We Had to Torture the Children in Order to Save Them

Posted on October 4, 2012

Just finished Maia Szalavitz’s powerful 2006 expose Help at Any Cost: How …

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