Christopher Orlet

For years we’ve been seeing stories that essentially repeat the same mantra: smart guys prefer dumb women. Smart women, naturally,…

Stroll through any city with a formerly Episcopalian, German Lutheran, and Roman Catholic majority population, and one will find on…

One of the gimmicks of Obamacare that got too little attention, in my opinion, was the proposal to keep “dependents”…

The Obama administration presented the release of Bowe Bergdahl as an indisputably glorious moment for the country. Amidst the celebration…

ThursdayStrange day. I awakened to a text from a close friend who is a devout Christian and who was so…

A few blocks from my home is the spot where the most famous exorcism in American history took place, the…

I’ve been wondering lately whether I, too, haven’t been guilty of “incivility” and “heated political rhetoric.” My rhetoric has been…

Three items from the recent news that even a cynical bastard like me thought could never happen: • Former Speaker…

The notion that humans are growing increasingly dumb has been around for millennia. Socrates, in his Unapologia, noted how his…

I was really looking forward to being a grumpy old man — nothing to do all day but shuffle about the…