Former New York commodities trader Vincent McCrudden was charged in federal court this week with threatening to kill 47 current and former federal regulators from the Securities and Exchange Commission […]
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Wikipedia turned 10 years old this week, and perhaps no entry better captures its chaotic ascendency than that of Jesus Christ.
In a major environmental decision, the Environmental Protection Agency has vetoed the largest mountaintop removal mining permit in the history of West Virginia.
The question is not whether culture matters, but whether it is an independent and self-sustaining factor in the production and reproduction of poverty.
Tourists have been evacuated and a state of emergency declared as one of North Africa’s longest-standing regimes falls to popular protest with its President flees the capital.
“There are some ridiculously ugly blogs out there,” says Joshua Brown. The modern money manager tells you how to spruce up your blog to get more readers.
What no one knew until now is that most cars would not work without the intervention of one of Einstein’s most famous discoveries: the special theory of relativity.
A story that the astrological chart has shifted, changing many people’s signs, has caused panic. But calm down! “Everything stays the same,” says astrologist Susan Miller.
In response to a Chinese mother’s strict parenting advice, one Western mom explains the virtues of letting kids quit, having sleepovers and finding their own way.
Freud’s ideas have become part of the fabric of everyday life—yet his methods are going out of favour. Robert Rowland Smith argues that the professionals have got it wrong.
Ron Paul, Congressman and anti-Federal Reserve crusader, has been appointed to chair a monetary policy subcommittee—now might be a good time to ask why we need the Fed.
The health care reform bill is still unpopular. Almost no one is completely happy with the compromise bill right now. A recent Gallup poll found that 46% of Americans want […]
Framing is a concept and term that is applied liberally in discussion of climate change politics and communication strategy. Unfortunately, despite widespread use, the concept is frequently misunderstood and misapplied. […]
We’ve reached the last Friday of Winter Break here at Denison, so starting Monday, the students are back. This semester I will be breaking out my volcanoes/human culture seminar class, […]
Here’s the most thoughtful conservative appreciation of the President’s speech. And here are some points I want to emphasize: 1. The president did not blame the shooting on “inflammatory rhetoric.” There’s no evidence […]
It is no longer conflict between heavily armed superpowers, but rather spreading food shortages and rising food prices that threatens our global future.
Fifty years ago, Dwight Eisenhower delivered what has become the best-known presidential farewell address. But was it romanticized out of proportion to its merit?
Matt Warman examines the new ‘Conversation Mode’ for Google Translate for Android, and asks what’s next for the search giant.
It is fanciful to imagine that guns will ever disappear from America…but that does not mean that more effective checks on the mentally unstable are impossible.
How do contemporary intellectuals corrupt their calling? “The intellectual life reduces itself to functional nihilism, warding off despair only by means of attacking the latest ideology.”
A new analysis of European tree-ring samples suggests that mild summers may have been the key to the rise of the Roman Empire.
To the outrage of breastfeeding campaigners and probably the utter confusion of most women with small babies, scientists today advocate rewriting the rulebook on breastfeeding.
Digital data is easily produced and copied. It doesn’t take up too much drive space, and, once uploaded, it can remain online in perpetuity.
What is really so shocking anyway about a policeman siding with ‘radical’ environmentalists whose views on climate change are sympathised with by many members of the establishment?
This deep divide in American political morality — for that’s what it amounts to — is a relatively recent development: Paul Krugman.
In a post on the New York Review of Books website, historian Garry Wills again compared Obama to Abraham Lincoln, a comparison uniquely compelling when assessed by Wills, our most […]
The world’s largest Massive Multi-Player Game isn’t World of Warcraft, The Sims, or Happy Farm. In fact, it’s not even online. It is the most ancient of arts: diplomacy. Diplomacy, as the […]
I have a gun. I have had it for several years now, and it lives in a heavy metal cabinet in my sitting room. In owning a gun, I am […]
Amanda of Pandagon points to a disturbing ABC News story about teens getting plastic surgery in a bid to escape bullying or, and/or to recover from the psychological scars of […]
The legendary chess grandmasters, who have spent thousands of hours analyzing each other’s games, describe and critique each others’ playing styles.