February 14, 2003 -- Romantic love is the predominant theme in modern American culture. It's the number-one topic of popular music. Movies
The news and the night sky are dominated by Mars. At a distance of only 34.6 million miles, the Red Planet is now closer to Earth than it...
February 6, 2004 -- Today is the birthday of a great man who, tragically, doesn’t know it. Ronald Reagan is 93 years old, but Alzheimer’s...
Most Americans know peaceful and prosperous Switzerland—America’s “sister republic”—for its beautiful mountains, tangy cheese, decentralized
The Astronomical League, the world's largest federation of amateur astronomers, has declared May 10th to be this year's Astro
Halloween has its origins in superstition, and, sadly, it invokes old and new superstitions still. Halloween, from "All Hallows Eve," was...
June 12, 2009 -- Americans are historically a generous people. Thus it’s shocking to see the National Committee for Responsible Philanthropy
Myths often manipulate our understanding of current events. Thus it is appropriate to comment on mythmaker George Lucas's latest Star Wars..
October 3, 2003 -- A group of Southern Methodist University students recently taught a lesson in practical philosophy better than those they
April 5, 2003 -- I am trained as an economist, and so it especially irks me when ignorant journalists attempt to comment on the economy...
December 10, 2003 -- Rarely has the moral decadence of the philosophy that places "society" above the individual been better illustrated...
April 18, 2005 -- On April 13, the House of Representatives voted to permanently repeal the Estate Tax. More accurately described as the
With Revenge of the Sith, George Lucas faced the same problem as did the classical Greek playwrights. Their audiences already knew the...
June 11, 2003 -- One Republican is finally making moral arguments to support his tax policies. Unfortunately, they’re the wrong arguments
July 7, 2005 -- On July 7, hundreds of Londoners were killed or injured in vicious terrorist attacks, and Islamists—the same death-worshipin
January 1, 2001 -- The classics, academic freedom, and justice often seem all but dead on college campuses today. Routinely, colleges and
Whether one favors the war against Iraq or not, one's attitude towards the United Nations' role is a revealing Rorschach test; those with
Many Americans understandably are concerned about the Bush administration's proposed Terrorist Information Prevention System, a program to
June 28, 2003 -- On July 4th, we celebrate the establishment of the United States of America by our Founding Fathers. Since 1776, America
Jett Travolta, the sixteen-year-old son of actors John Travolta and Kelly Preston, died recently of what the autopsy found to be a seizure..
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