Your vocabulary word for the day is, “pivot.” According to the Oxford Languages Dictionary, pivot can be used as a noun, meaning, “The central poin...
Evelyn Waugh, who would become one of the best-known British writers of his age, chronicled the decline and fall of the British aristocracy in works s...
Cecile Richards is no stranger to controversy. As the president of Planned Parenthood she leads one of the central institutions of the Culture of Deat...
A respectful conversation on the most controversial issues of our day is a rare gift. And I am looking forward to just that kind of opportunity when I...
Sorry kids, back to school means back to bedtime. One of the odd characteristics of our time is our apparent need for scientific verification of what we should know by simple common sense. Well, help now comes in the form of a research project under ...
The Colorado legislature is considering the repeal of laws in the state that criminalize adultery or any act that would "promote sexual immorality." According to Lynn Bartels of The Denver Post, the process of repeal is now well underway, with the Ho ...
Watching the American scene in the 1960s, historian Daniel Boorstin, invented the idea of the "pseudo-event." The rise of television and modern mass media had produced a transformation of the news business, so that what now mattered was not if an eve ...
French President François Hollande recently announced that he wants French schools to put an end to homework. That is certain to thrill school children in the nation, but the reason for Hollande's war on homework will likely puzzle many French citize ...
Russia is in the grip of an apocalyptic fever. The New York Times reports that Russians across the nation's nine time zones are in the grip of a mass hysteria of sorts -- and it's all about the end of the world. As Ellen Barry reports: "Inmates in ...
TODAY 1. The Supreme Court and Same-Sex Marriage -- A Decision Not to Decide is Still a Decision. 2. First Same-Sex Marriage in West Point's Chapel -- What it Means. 3. Sharia Law Combines with Autocracy in Egypt. 4. The Two-Edged Sword of Palestinia ...
TODAY: Another Decision Day at the Supreme Court -- Marriage on the Line / Does the Fiscal Cliff Really Matter? / The Gender Police Hit a Toy Store / The United Nations Grants Palestinians Observer State Status, But Where is the State? I discuss all ...
TODAY: The Digital Divide -- Where the Young People Are / Filtering the Flood in the Digital Age / Are Hindus and Muslims Better at Practicing what They Preach? / The Rise of Muslim Atheists? / You Mean Judges Have Worldviews, Too? I discuss all thes ...
TODAY: The Perils of Powerball --The Losing Game of the Lottery / The Deadly Danger of a New Prenatal Test / Abortions Fall by Five Percent . . . Good News or Strange Math? / An Actor Says Watching His Own Show is "Filling Your Head With Filth" / The ...
TODAY: What the Christmas Buying Season Says About Us / The Perils of State Sponsored Religious Education / Atheist Group Gets Major Funding at a State University / Paul Krugman Wants to Marginalize Opponents of Evolution / The Last Typewriter Leaves ...