On Halloween night, in Salem, Massachusetts, revelers gather at Gallows Hill, the site of the infamous witch hangings of 1692.…
If you want to understand the direction our culture is headed, there’s a group of authors whose work must be…
In the newest version of the movie The Bad News Bears, a Little League coach drinks in front of his…
In a well-known urban legend, college students simultaneously flush all the toilets on campus and break down the town’s sewage…
A friend of mine recently installed voice-recognition software on his computer. Instead of “keyboarding” thoughts, he now speaks them in.…
Last weekend, searching for Christmas gifts for my granddaughter, I drove to the local Target store. As I walked in,…
For nearly thirty years, the phrase killing fields was synonymous with Cambodia. Between 1975 and 1979, the communist Khmer Rouge…
A headline for an obituary in the October 10 New York Times said it all: “Jacques Derrida, Abstruse Theorist, Dies at 74.”…
For all the horror stories we’ve heard about euthanasia in recent years, there are still many people who think of…
There is a ban on stem cell research — or at least that’s what we hear. But that’s only a…
