When men do what is right in their own eyes without a sense of accountability, they can fa...
The blues tradition has been always slow to evolve, which is one of its charms in that it ...
So-called "crony capitalism" (Big Business + Big Government) isn't merely a threat to the ...
Some cultural pathologies enlarge to fill an ethical vacuum: Despite the pose of the heroi...
If you want to understand everything that’s gone wrong in pop music over the last 20 yea...
I first noticed how utterly annoying mobile phones had become some years ago in a visit to...
If it’s up to the ACLU there will be, sort of. Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam has a law on h...
. . . but he also anticipates the fault lines that could be our undoing (especially note [...
"Good afternoon, chefie, I am the census taker." "Well, you got me at a busy time." "Oh,...
"Omnipotence means ‘power to do all, or everything’. And we are told in Scripture that...
"If the solar system was brought about by an accidental collision, then the appearance of ...
These were randomly chosen from a Google search: (1) "We have clear evidence that Christi...
As a faithful NPR listener, and as a faithful right-wing conservative Christian Constituti...
This is truly amazing to watch: a 360-degree panoramic view from the top of Mount Everest....
James Earl Carter, Jr., the 39th president, granted an interview to the Huffington Post re...
Eric Fry seems to think that some billionaires should come with warning labels: [Warren] B...
From a right-of-center perspective, Tom Blumer examines one afternoon's worth of electroni...
The British crime drama series Whitechapel resumes tonight at 10 EDT on BBC America wi...
I've always had a fondness for tales of early Hollywood. It was an amazing time and place...
TV networks and the producers who supply their programming strive for originality more t...
Albert Jay Nock (1870-1945) was a highly influential public intellectual of the pre-World...
Rick Moran surveys various media pundits on why Edgar Rice Burroughs's sure fire hit has g...
Abraham Miller thinks that federally-mandated affirmative action policies almost inevitabl...
Sometimes a TV show does just about everything right, and yet . . . one still doesn't feel...
I got an e-mail from Ira Glass last week. I found that odd, because I don’t believe I’...
For better or worse, from childhood most of us are taught that God is always watching us �...
Spotting what might be a manifestation of an interesting cultural trend, political and cul...
Since I was born and raised in LA and now live in the Chicago area I’ve made it a habi...
Mary Grabar, an English instructor, limns the political hagiography that masquerades as in...
David Coppedge thinks his religious orientation resulted in his being fired from a governm...
The Inspector General (IG) of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) recentl...
Curt Evans has recently posted on his The Passing Tramp weblog about some of John Updike's...
