Er, no offense to people being beheaded in the Middle East but, uh, what are you doing there? James Foley had been abducted before. In 2011 he was detained while reporting on ...
There is only one real political question: Are people equal or not? All political distinctions"whether left or right, individualistic or collectivist, libertarian or ...
You know that one time a month when you"re arguing with a lady friend and she says something that makes your neck recoil in confusion? You"ll stop the fight for a second ...
On August 2, 2014, the Obama Administration allowed the first of two American health care workers who had contracted the Ebola virus back into the U.S. There is no logical ...
Arizona State University, perennial favorite for "nation's least prestigious school," is showing America why: students can now earn extra credit in a Women and Gender ...
Whether or not it was Julie Burchill who described Stephen Fry as "a stupid person's idea of a clever person," it's a finer quip than most of the labored ...
Now that Colorado has legalized marijuana (though not for 4th graders), drugs are back in the news, and that inevitably brings the discussion to the decriminalization of all ...
A small item in one of those free newspapers that end up on the seats of the world's subway systems caught my attention yesterday. It was in the Paris Métro; I read it while ...
Ah, the guttering candle of civilization! How I love it. The dwindling flames warm the cockles of a curmudgeon's heart (whatever precisely a cockle may be): the galloping rot, the ...
As the civil-rights movement settles into stagnation and one nostrum after the next fails to move the needle, public rituals celebrating the faith have become de rigueur. Nowhere ...
On Christmas Day, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden released a video statement on the implications of massive government spying. The exile to Russia reminded us once again that ...
I recently did a TED Talk here in Brooklyn and the conference's theme was teamwork. The first thing I thought when assigned the task was, "I don"t want to be part of ...
I have it on good authority that some women find Boris Johnson irresistibly attractive. Now, the Brits are a comparatively homely race of people, but I’ll admit to finding ...
Most people read to confirm their prejudices rather than to learn something new or change their minds. Moreover, they recall what confirms their opinions much better than they ...
Cicero was a wise human being who wrote that a man with a garden and a library has all he needs. He also said that only a man without a brain Tweets. (Well, he would have said it ...
TV actress Leah Remini renounced Scientology last week. I assume she's looking back on the past decade and wondering what she was thinking. I know how she feels. I was also a ...
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