Clifford May has a thought-provoking op-ed this week which summarizes two recent conservative commentaries on America’s future: a speech by Charles Murray at the American Enterprise Institute on the implications of adopting the European model of social democracy, and an essay by John Bolton in...

“The Passover Seder, the oldest continuously observed religious ceremony in the world, tells the story of the Jews’ Exodus from Egypt. Jewish tradition says that people of each generation must imagine that they personally had departed from Egypt, and the sages say that each generation must...

The best commercial I’ve seen so far during March Madness: All the Knight-haters out there have to admit, the man can laugh at himself.

In a move which may have led to full scale war in virtually any other century but perhaps this one and the last, the United Kingdom may be changing its royal succession rules: Gordon Brown, the British Prime Minister, has opened talks with Buckingham Palace on removing the 308-year-old law that bars...

Reason #1012 to avoid Twitter: If you don’t, Jennifer Anniston will dump you. The source said: “John suddenly stopped calling her or returning her emails and when she would finally catch up with him, he’d say: ‘I’ve been so busy with work. I’m sorry I haven’t...

When you hang your clothes, which way do they face? For reasons I cannot fully discern, I always hang mine facing left. Thus, when I look at clothes from left to right I see the front of them. Yet virtually every dry cleaner I use hangs them facing the opposite direction. So which is the “correct”...

Having a bad case of the Mondays? Then you might want to avoid a much-talked-about piece by Victor Davis Hanson which reviews, in essence, the demise of America. Apparently it touched a nerve and set off a chain reaction of responses around the web. Notably, Scott Johnson largely echoes Hanson’s...

(Updated on March 25–see the extended post) Imagine you’re a very bright young person. You study hard and do well in school, and you go on to obtain a degree from a prestigious university. After graduation, many of your friends become doctors and lawyers, some eventually earning salaries...

This year Indiana University basketball is taking a brief hiatus from the NCAA tournament as it rebuilds its proud and storied program. I have no doubt that in the very near future IU will once again be a powerhouse. Nevertheless, watching the struggles this year have been difficult, to say the least....

At the risk of beating a dead horse, I thought I’d follow up my St. Patrick’s Day post below with a story and some audio. The post was published in my local newspaper (not my title) and, though I received a number of calls and emails from it (almost all positive), one in particular stood...