In Praise of Folly

Conservatives never have been big fans of watching what they say. They are Americans and this is a free country, damn you, so read the Firs...

To Love Beauty is To See Light.

After almost 250 years of existence, the corporate world has decided to move beyond gaining full citizenship rights for themselves to rewri...

The Republican-led House just can’t stop trying to limit abortion. Their latest gambit – outlawing the procedure after the 20 th week. The...

An infamous New York Daily News headline of 1975 read “Ford to City: Drop Dead,” a response to his threatened veto of any bailout for the ...

Another U.S. Open in contention, another failure for old Phil. Mickelson is always the bridesmaid and never the bride when it comes to the ...

Quality movies have a combination of ingredients that make them great. These tend to include compelling characters and moving arcs, a rivet...

Another shooting, another deranged young man and another who was able to amass an arsenal of weapons and ammo that would have made John Dil...

A not so modest proposal for providing a major economic stimulus that doesn’t involve tax increases is available, though it has never been ...

After 12 years of the conservative revolution ushered in by Ronald Reagan, a hiccup emerged in the guise of a chubby, but handsome philande...

Clichés fill conference rooms of businesses across America. Reinventing the wheel (which has been done a number of times – and in good ways...

Oops, I mean War on the Poor. Corporations are paying the lowest proportion of taxes on profits since before the great depression. The labo...

Reason, Rationality and Sanity are planning a gala celebration to mark the announcement today that Michele Bachmann (R-Minnesota) is retiri...

Bob Dole, the ex-impotence spokesman, Senator and Presidential candidate, is worried the GOP has moved too far to the right: Slate . Dole c...

After a seven year absence, Arrested Development has returned for a 4 th season. The long-awaited arrival had me both excited and worrie...

In Chicago last week, prosecutors decided to try three teenage boys as adults for raping a 12-year-old girl and posting a video of the att...

There has been little real pleasure in being an Arsenal fan since the 2006 Champions League final turned in Barcelona’s favor. And yet I ...

The last day of the season was shaping up as a potentially four-team struggle for survival, but Wigan's dreams of another escape were s...

A friend sent me an article a few months ago called "The End of the University as We Know It" that I've been meaning to read...