How do political beliefs relate to taste in TV shows? A study has found some patterns: In the findings, “sarcastic” media-savvy comedies and morally murky antiheroes tend to draw Dems. While serious work-centered shows (both reality shows and stylized scripted procedurals), along with reality competitions,
The Occupy Wall Street folks, who in many cases are being evicted from their downtown campsites, have started a new strategy: Occupying foreclosed houses. This includes blocking efforts to evict people, disrupting auctions, fixing up abandoned homes and giving them to homeless people, and just
Happy belated St. Nicholas Day yesterday. A piece I wrote for WORLD a few years ago has been going around again, in which I take up the account of jolly old St. Nicholas slapping Arius at the Council of Nicaea for denying Christ’s divinity. Many
A lot of people just HATE Denver quarterback Tim Tebow. And it’s because of his open Christianity. Even other Christians sometimes squirm over his overt piety, putting John 3:16 on the patches under his eyes and kneeling down to pray after each of his numerous
If you put first class postage on a letter, it used to be delivered the next day. Lately, you can’t count on that, but sometimes it happens. But now the U. S. Post Office has announced that it won’t even try, that to save money
Here is a religious liberty case to watch: The U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has heard arguments in a religious liberty case that could determine whether a college has the right to require students to profess certain beliefs about homosexuality in order to get
Herman Cain has dropped out of the race for the Republican presidential nomination: In a long awaited announcement Herman Cain stood with his wife Gloria before a crowd of supporters at his campaign office in north DeKalb County, Georgia to say that he will suspend
The rivalry in my native Oklahoma between the Sooners of the University of Oklahoma and the Cowboys of Oklahoma State divides parent and child, brother and brother. It certainly does in my family! The Sooners have almost always been better, but the intensity of the
Roger Kimball on the legacy of John Stuart Mill: In 1859, two revolutionary books were published. One was Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species. The other was John Stuart Mill’s pamphlet On Liberty. Darwin’s book revolutionized biology and fundamentally altered the debate between science
Social science aspires to the status of natural science, never mind that human beings are not as consistent or predictable as inert matter. But a new study has found that an alarmingly large percentage of experimental psychologists admit to using questionable, if not bogus, research
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