Lists of great books for children invariably include The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis. But not long…
A few years ago, I published a book with Jack Eckerd called Why America Doesn’t Work. It wasn’t long before I…
Three decades ago it seemed a sensible thing to do: After a botched operation destroyed a baby’s genitals, his parents…
Last November an amateur astronomer named Chuck Shramek photographed the comet Hale-Bopp. When he developed the photos, Shramek thought he…
Twenty years ago President Jimmy Carter told a group of government employees: “Those of you who are living in sin-I…
Eighty years ago, psychologist and researcher James Leuba made a prediction that scandalized America: As people became better educated in…
Headlines around the world recently announced the death of a great scientist: Australian neurophysiologist Sir John Eccles. Most of the…
Any time an event attracts four presidents and a couple of first ladies, you know it’s an event to be…
In the classic science fiction film, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, aliens from outer space invade people’s bodies as part of…
Why do we find some people beautiful and others, well, plain? One psychologist says we’re responding to “evolutionary pressures.” To…
