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For several years now I have had an idea for a novel simmering on the back burner of my mind. (This time frame is not unusual; it took three...

I am sometimes baffled by the way other people think. I am fully aware that not everyone sees the world the same way I do; I made that point...

The New York Times motto, "All the news that's fit to print," needs to be carefully parsed these days. There has always been a...

I took a break from grading term papers tonight to attend a meeting hosted by the Center Right Coalition. The audience barely outnumbered t...

The textbook debate going on in Texas right now is instructive of a larger issue. Greta Van Susteren of Fox News ran a clip of Patricia Hen...

There is no such thing as time as we know it. Time is not a substance that can be detected with the senses; it is not even an ephemeral some...

Once agai n we are being treated to a lesson in democracy from the middle east. Why is it that the Iraqi people will risk life and property ...