One of the tragedies caused by the decline of education over the last century has been the demise of rhetoric,…
Polls show that people increasingly distrust science. Why might that be? Most surely don’t reject the scientific method — using the…
Last week Scott Gottlieb announced his resignation as commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration. Unfortunately and unexpectedly, Gottlieb’s reign…
Remember when the notion of Obamacare passing was laughable, unthinkable? And here we are, years later, in a system with…
February 26 marks the centenary of Grand Canyon National Park, its designation issuing from the pen of President Woodrow Wilson…
In August, 1910, a huge fire burned three million acres (destroying whole towns and taking 87 lives) in Washington state,…
Just what did Elizabeth Warren, the persistently unhinged Democrat senator from Massachusetts, expect to gain from releasing a DNA test…
One of the most instructive Old Testament stories recounts the wisdom of Joseph in Egypt, after his interpretation of Pharaoh’s…
One of Shakespeare’s most famous lines comes when Hamlet asks his mother how she reacts to a certain character’s effusive…
One of the recent WikiLeaks email dumps revealed some interesting things about hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking. (This enhanced…
