Louisville beat Michigan to win the NCAA basketball championship. In our Cranach contest, no one picked the winner, but quite a few picked Louisville to be in the final two: Dr. Fundystan, Aletheist, A. MacPhee, and EGK. Dennis gets another imaginary prize for coming the
I hope you had a happy Quasimodogeniti, the Second Sunday of Easter with perhaps the coolest name in the Church Year (which comes from the Latin for the first words of the Introit of the day from 1 Peter 2:2: “Like newborn infants. . .
The television industry is worried about a growing new category called “Zero TVers.” Not to be confused with people who don’t watch TV at all, these viewers will watch programming. But not what’s broadcast or cabled onto a TV set. They watch on their computers
Margaret Thatcher, the only female Prime Minister of Great Britain, who held office from 1979 to 1990, died yesterday of a stroke at age 87. Mrs. Thatcher was the British equivalent of Ronald Reagan, with whom she worked closely, standing up to the Soviet Union
A Korean war chaplain who died in a POW camp will receive the Medal of Honor later this week. Read the exploits of Father Emil Kapaun after the jump. (more…)
Did you know that you don’t own your DNA? Different companies hold the patent to about 41% of your genes. That means whenever those DNA strands are tested by a doctor, the company collects a royalty. Later this month, the Supreme Court will hear a
Carlos Lozada writes about the publishing trend of books that announce “the end” of something. Here are some recent titles: The End of America The End of Sex The End of Men The End of Money The End of Lawyers The End of Work The
Anthony Sacramone asked me to write something on “How to Find Your Vocation in College” for the I.S.I. website he edits, so I did. I also took the opportunity to answer the conservative pundits who are saying that college students should all go into technology
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Most diagnoses of what ails the Republican party have been focusing on social conservatism, saying that Republicans need to stop opposing gay marriage and abortion if they want to start winning national elections. But now some are arguing that the Republican commitment to libertarian economic
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