Mississippi State University head football coach Mike Leach is a renowned eccentric and smart aleck. His press conferences are often…Read More

Some things that are written age better than others. I recall as a graduate student in history doing research at…Read More

Last week, I returned from Spain, the coronavirus epicenter. I wasn’t back for more than 48 hours before I detected…Read More

Last night I returned from Spain. Along with Italy, it is the so-called epicenter of the coronavirus in Europe. Worse,…Read More

One of my favorite authors is the late British journalist, intellectual, and cultural critic Malcolm Muggeridge. I was reminded of…Read More

It’s official: America is losing its religion. According to the Pew Forum, Gallup, the General Social Survey, and several other…Read More

In April, I published my list of The Top Ten Evilest People of All Time. It was, I admit, a…Read More

As the race for the Oval Office was heating up back in 2012, I published a little column that caught…Read More

A generation ago, cultural critic Neil Postman published the clever little book Amusing Ourselves to Death. In it, Postman considers…Read More

University of Oxford developmental psychologist Dr. Olivera Petrovich has spent years researching a single question: Are children predisposed to belief…Read More