Learned something curious from Berkowitz's Sex and Punishment , a book I picked up from the Harvard Bookstore a week ago. Medieval pries...

From the early 1500s to early 1600s, the English destroyed a lot of art. Perhaps as much as 98% of their paintings and statues as part of t...

As I write this, Twitter is a twitter about sex. At least for the accounts I follow, that's unusual. The two big stories are Roy Moore...

About 90% of men had a job in 1900. (The Labor Force Participation Rate, or LFPR is the measure of this.) The workweek was 60 hours. Near...

This election seems like a big deal. It is. We're exactly one month away from election day and the Republican National Committee is seri...

For centuries, the Catholic Church taught that every kind of sex was sinful. Well, all but one kind of sex: sex between married people who w...

Before looking at the following graph, keep in mind that the Catholic Church has been around about 1,700 years. Had the church lost just 6 p...

"What kind of First Amendment would permit the government to protect children by restricting sales of that extremely violent video game...

When teaching macroeconomics, I wrote a test asking students about the difference between the public and private sectors. It was not until I...

Apparently, Bush and Clinton are every kind of thrilled to see David Letterman is in trouble, but the two have very different responses. Geo...

In advertising we find the marriage of the most advanced and most ancient technologies: desire for status or sex is married to the latest pr...

Just to be clear ... The conservatives' spokesperson for abstinence-only sex education is teen mother Bristol Palin and their spokespers...

"I don't know why the economists haven't already figured out the cause of this economic downturn," Bernard said assuredly....

We now live in a world where the fastest man is named Bolt. It’s as if the folks at Marvel or DC Comics have taken over from Newton and Eins...

Marathon hopeful, 101-year-old , training hard Already Britain's oldest employee, 101-year-old Buster Martin now aims to become the worl...

Try this thought experiment involving French President Sarkozy. Imagine him here in the U.S. and how our 24 hour news stations, talk shows, ...

This morning, my darling wife announces to me that she was in the midst of the most delicious dream when the phone rang. She reports this wh...

This, from Yahoo News, has to be my favorite headline of the day: Why people have sex: It feels good For this, Bernard kvetches, for this th...

I saw that Saw III was the top grossing film over the weekend. From what I've read, it falls into the category of the “can't be too ...