Welcome to the Cathedral of May , that fine time of year with no equal except October, and with the summer instead of the winter in front of...

Extensive research shows that using harsh verbal discipline and physical hostility is counterproductive to good parenting. It increases the ...

Archaeologists claim to have discovered tools that pre-date the genus homo .

"Safe places" are all the rage, as young people struggle to find a refuge from disturbing ideas on campus and enforce orthodoxy on...

As long as the grass grows and the river runs...

So, is this flight delayed? Guess so, but they won't call it or let you know for how long. Will I make my connection? Who knows! It...

On the strength of my recent enjoyment of BBC documentary, a British friend recommends to me this 13-part series from the BBC on Western Civ...

Playing off the popularity of the BBC's excellent production of "Wolf Hall," about Henry VIII's break with the Catholic Ch...

When you're a scientist, sometimes it's good to be the king , if it means you get to look under a different rock from the one that a...

So, the question that I am curious about in the wake of this latest Clinton scandal is about options for fixing things should we determine ...

The image is a photo I took of a tile in Jerusalem last December. If I were to have a patron saint, I should think it would be St. George....

MSNBC hosts lecture on the democratic glories of tax season, dodge tens of thousands of dollars in taxes . The video at the link is glorio...

Today's game: does the headline match the statement? "[If] we have to give some Christians refugee status given that with Iraq and...

'Get your gang together, and break into the house of a professional MMA fighter .'

Major General Allen Batschelet , CDRUSAREC, says that only thirty percent of American youth ages 17-24 are fit enough to join the US militar...

"And in the last eclipse the sea Shall stand up like a tower, Above all moons made dark and riven, Hold up its foaming head in heave...

I'm sure we've talked about the famous 'trolley problem' many times. Classically, there's no right answer to it, but it...

The original classic . Now, featuring David Hasselhoff! No, I don't know how this happened.