This surreal journey we’ve been on in the US, this endless parade of political dysfunction and kill-or-be-killed behavior and pervasive...

I don’t know about you, but this George Santos business has made me quite hopeful. It’s been often said that one of the great positives...

During the tenure of Capt. Christopher Pike, the first officer of the USS Enterprise was a woman referred to by all as Number One. We...

I’m a huge fan of Aaron Sorkin, and of his 1995 film The American President in particular. The Sorkin-penned, Rob Reiner-directed...

I live in a deeply conservative corner of the US. I am, well, surrounded: all of my neighbors in my conservative neighborhood in my...

Self-proclaimed alpha male Andrew Tate has been burning up his 15 minutes with gusto, schooling all of us beta males in the nuances of...

The Berkeley cognitive scientist/linguist George Lakoff has spent decades pursuing a deep understanding of how our word choices affect...

So there’s this great episode of The Orville, which takes place in the 25th century, where a time capsule from the 21st has been dug up...

Many are the innovations that rock musicians have contributed to the art of the guitar - unquestionably more than have been rendered by...

Analytics expert Matt Bailey likes to stress the power of the craft in his seminars by working through one of Star Trek’s biggest...

In the 17th century, a period that included a Russian famine, the death of Elizabeth I, the assassination of the French king Henry IV,...

It’s not easy to think of monuments better known or more mysterious than Stonehenge, nor any more longstanding: not even the pyramids of...

To fully appreciate the sheer magnitude of the vast distances in space and time that separate the Earth from whatever cousins she may...

There’s a moment in the old Andy Griffith Show where Andy and Barney are talking about their plans for the weekend – Andy’s date with...

Something has been bugging me for 43 years now. I feel it’s time to speak up, once and for all. It’s 1979. I’m sitting in the movie...

Want to understand Authoritarians? Political author Max Blumenthal recalls and exchange between Erich Fromm (The True Believer) and...

There are those who want to live in a society where no one person is absolutely in charge – no monarch, no dictator, no master – and...

As we look around today, we see tens of millions of people worshipping a man. They worship him so utterly that they will have no other...

Heather Cox Richardson makes the point in her column1 that the Republican Party has been trapped for years in a “Triangle of Doom” - a...

There is near-universal consensus that the best Boston song was the first Boston song. “More Than a Feeling”, Track One of Side One of...