The new series of ads for Candie’s shoes make those old ads about the Tidy Bowl man look positively…
A full-page ad shows a young man leaping high into the air on a Schwinn bike. The ad copy promises…
An Ikea furniture commercial portrays a young couple who look for all the world like newlyweds. They wander about the…
A little boy holds a bag of Lay’s potato chips and grins at NFL quarterback Dan Marino. “Betcha can’t eat…
News reports say that the sitcom star Roseanne Barr has been spotted riding a broomstick and wearing a tall, pointy…
A 15-year-old boy—we’ll call him James—broke into a house in Washington, D.C. While James was searching one room, one of…
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…
