The US was founded by Protestants. For the first time in this country's history, there is not a single Protestant on the Supreme Court. ...

Today the Supreme Court ruled that a privately held company can refuse to finance contraceptives they object to on religious grounds. The Ho...

Pew unveiled some interesting data about the American polity. To me the most fascinating thing is data illustrating the difference between l...

It's time for management to focus on focus. I’ve often wondered what would happen if a power outage or Internet outage were to sudd...

First quarter GDP fell by 2.9% . That's a sharp decline. The popular story is that we got hit by a polar vortex that made it so cold tha...

“We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and f...

“My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will.” -           William James A friend of a friend made a really intriguing...

The New York Times Magazine published a really interesting essay by Adam Davidson about "the boomerang kids" who won't leave ...

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...

The International Monetary Fund and Federal Reserve have both made downward revisions to economic forecasts this week. The IMF doesn’t thin...

As late as the 1950s,  a Catholic theologian wrote that it was wrong to anesthetize pain, particularly in the sinner. It might interfere wit...

Frequency with which polar ice and polarize is mentioned in books since 1900. It looks neck and neck.

Steve Martin: I ordered a chicken and an egg from Amazon. I'll let you know. In the last year or so I've made numerous trips to Bo...

How could you not adore this bright eyed inventor?

Presidential candidates and op-ed writers often lament the lack of leaders, as if entire generations of Americans were born without the ski...

When a reporter asked Babe Ruth to justify making more money than the president (this at the dawn of the Great Depression), Babe replied, ...

If Haiti had GDP growth of 10% for five years, it would be reason for great optimism. Still, you probably wouldn't want to leave Palo Al...

Gallup tracks Americans' perceptions. There is a curious gap between what people report about their own condition and what they make of ...