Alisa Harris has a B.A. in English from Hillsdale College in Michigan. She is a reporter for WORLD Magazine, writer for Patrol Magazine and teaches a journalism class at The King's College. She writes from quirky coffee shops in Brooklyn, New York.
The American political dialogue would be in less trouble if leaders had to debate like those students did.
To me, the only wrong place to wear a political t-shirt is church.
A simple New Year’s resolution to claim order, sanity and humanity.
Madeleine Albright wore her collection with a knowledge too many women in politics forget.
After I watched Bruno, I left the theater desperately praying to gays, blacks, Jews, Arabs, babies, Baptists, and God for forgiveness. Then I stood in line at the Shake Shack for 45 minutes because drinking alcohol felt too dirty and it seemed the wholesomeness of a milkshake was all that could purge my soul. Disclaimer: […]
No Country for Old Men and Made of Honor assault our sense of justice in very different ways.
In Spoiled, Caitlin Macy gives a devastating diagnosis of the Upper East Side’s almost-rich.
Everlasting Moments, the beautiful story of a Swedish woman whose photography gives her hope.
A Kegger in Your Brain: The United States of Tara
Looking at United States of Tara and Dissociative Identity Disorder.
Financial Frenzy:Don Delillo's Cosmopolis
The novel is about a suicidal, mad pursuit of knowledge – about the desire for immortality through information – and the crash that follows. It is one of those prescient books that resonates more today, with our own financial titans falling, than when it was written in 2003.
The holidays are happy because they force us to leave the warmth of the illusion of adulthood and watch our years of therapy slide down the sink with the scraps of Christmas dinner and our dignity, as our pretensions to maturity explode into the sibling rivalries we founded at the age of three. A Christmas […]
Bones and Booth show the tension between the rationalistic worldview and a view that places some faith in mystery. Whose view wins in the end?
Playing God on Private Practice
I watch Grey’s Anatomy for the fast-paced gore and the overblown personal dramas. I watch its spin-off, Private Practice, for all that along with its thoughtful treatment of bioethical dramas – the same dramas we’re seeing in real-life hospitals and public debate. The bioethics debate isn’t just a clinical and scientific debate or an abstract […]
Whereas before, the impulse to express myself was instant and important, I lost not just the urge but the ability to communicate.
But why? Why do we have to choose between our insecurities? Most of us are complicated people.
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