Hyde Park's Corner

I often agree with the analysis and views of the Economist . That's probably because I tend to agree with their general views on the app...

Yes, that's what we are told, that's what the evidence now shows. Women are beginning to dominate the workplace at most professisona...

Is there anything more dispiriting and perplexing than the cost of prescription medications in the United States? Especially if you have no ...

Mary Oliver, in Thirst (2006): I. Belief isn't always easy. But this much I have learned-- if not enough else-- to live with my eyes op...

I've sometimes been loose in my use of the declaration, "Never again." I've used it to underscore our repeated national mi...

Consider the uneven, often disappointing nature of human authority, leadership, responsibility and accountability. It is based more or less ...

Individuals and society are now more transparent, more honest about problems of loneliness. It is a problem in itself, but is often associat...

From The Chronicle Review: The antivocational dimension of the humanities has been a source of pride and embarrassment for generations. T...

There has long been an unhappy relationship, a profoundly distrustful and adversarial relationship, between environmental advocacy groups an...

It's really cold--at least for southern Florida. It was 40 when I awoke this morning. The high for the next few days will be 60. Unusual...

Brave in That Holy War* You have done well In the contest of madness. You were brave in that holy war. You have all the honorable woun...

Why is it that so many Christians fail to understand their relationship and obligation to the poor, sick and unable? And what of those who i...

Some of us had The Elements of Style forced upon us. Others of us sought it out for it's fabled wisdom and exacting measures of good an...

Associate Press WASHINGTON - The little town of Libby, Mont., isn't mentioned by name in the Senate's mammoth health care bill, but ...

They never stop reminding you, do they? Those friends and family that live in the South, Southwest and West, they just want to make sure the...

There is no clear understanding or provable basis for how or why the Christian Church came to celebrate the birth of Jesus on December 25th....