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Today on Tablet

by
Marc Tracy
March 18, 2011

Are video games the new religion? Maybe not exactly, but today in Tablet Magazine, in his weekly parasha column, Liel Leibovitz expounds on his theory that “video games are played not so much with the mind as with the thumbs. In other words, they are a ritual.”

Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.