Watching the news of protests in Istanbul, I"€™m reminded of the time I required a Turkish private detective's services. I was in Turkey and had to get the answer to an ...

Ever since Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan, the D-Day landings in northern France have increasingly come to stand in for all of the American experience in World War ...

I’ve recently been made aware of a strange new tribe who refer to themselves collectively"€”they do everything collectively"€”as “progressives.” I think they ...

“Seasoned blonde SWF seeks sophisticated SWM Democrat. Must love dogs, topiary, major (and minor) holidays. Turn offs: processed food, dust, dirt, disarray OF ANY KIND!!! No ...

Over the last few days, as I watched both the homicidal antics of the Boston Bomb Brothers and the characteristically competent Tom Cruise science-fiction movie Oblivion, I was ...

Now in its sixteenth week, the Jodi Arias trial is being broadcast across the nation. But only a few years ago there was considerable debate over whether cameras should even be ...

Jane Fonda uttered the words, “I will go to my grave” last week and I thought: “Finally!” Fonda recently talked to Oprah about that “one ...

What do people really mean by the word “vibrant?” Until the disco era, “vibrant” was used only rarely, mostly in connection with vibrations, literal or ...

Hollywood is having one more shot at Gatsby"€”the sixth one. The first filmed Gatsby was silent, pun intended. My favorite was the second, made in 1949 and starring Alan Ladd. ...

Since the 1950s a multitude of solutions to revitalize decaying inner cities have come and gone. If anything, matters have grown worse"€”brave souls should visit Detroit, ...

This year was the first time a homosexual poet performed at the Presidential Inauguration. (Not well, one might add.) That may be a shock since all poetry is supposedly written by ...

As I"€™ve been pointing out in intermittent columns, much of the received wisdom about the 1960s doesn"€™t make much sense. One major reason is that human psychology generally ...

Nate Silver is most famous for steadily predicting Barack Obama's reelection (which, as you may have heard, happened). Yet his new bestseller The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many ...

I"€™m writing my weekly column the evening before Election Day for you to read starting an hour after the polls close on the West Coast. As you may have noticed, I"€™ve ...

With Halloween upon us as well as a new television program based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's writings, it's worth revisiting his spiritualist leanings and his contentious ...

No journalist this century has played a more persistent role in forging a new conventional wisdom on education than Paul Tough, long of The New York Times Magazine. Tough has ...