The founder of Playboy magazine, Hugh Hefner, is worried about his legacy. In preparation for his eightieth birthday, which he celebrated yesterday,…
Sometimes you have to wonder about the New York Times. It printed a long, breathtakingly written, scientific-sounding piece that just…
“Slave traffickers around the world have rediscovered how profitable it is to buy and sell people. Women are lured into…
It’s an opening familiar to millions of Americans. A New York resident is walking down the street, minding his own…
The New York Times ushered in the new year with a nice gift for Christians—one it did not give to anyone else:…
The other day I was watching a news segment about British leader Tony Blair’s decision to come down hard on…
In the theater, the phrase dramatic irony refers to those situations whose meaning is understood by the audience but not by the…
The catastrophic tsunami in the Indian Ocean has prompted the greatest international response since the Ethiopian famine of the mid-1980s.…
Read carefully this lead sentence from an Associated Press news item on October 1: “The House emphatically rejected a constitutional…
Six months after its theatrical release, The Passion of the Christ continues to drive its critics crazy. By “crazy,” I mean into…
