Books are good gifts to receive and even better gifts to give because you can get books without half the hassles involved in buying many other kinds of gifts...
Couple of columns back, I was talking about the city of Sydney, Australia, and how they’ve warned Santas not to say “ho, ho, ho” — because it could be offensive to women...
In the last few years, it has become popular to say that history is determined largely by sweeping inanimate forces of technology, the environment, gender, class, or race...
Politically, Arizona Republican Congressman Jeff Flake will undoubtedly get pummeled over his vote to extend employment discrimination protection to homosexuals...
For the first time in a generation, the question of whether the death penalty deters murders has captured the attention of scholars in law and economics, setting off an intense new debate about one of the central justifications for capital punishment...
The list of Americans gathered at the White House yesterday should be enough to bury once and for all the falsehood, so popular on the left, that our president is some sort of philistine...
Old Globe Theatre founding director Craig Noel was honored at the White House yesterday, receiving the National Medal of Arts from President Bush at a ceremony that brought together some of the top figures of American theater, literature and music...