When I saw the headline at CNN.com stating “British troops shot as they lay on ground” I callously thought “Another day in Iraq.” This is not the case: The execution-style...
Kenneth Brannagh’s version of ‘Henry V’ and Arnold Schwarzenegger’s version of ‘The Running Man’ both just came on. Guess which one I chose to click on.
I was pondering the debate over gay marriage when this wonderful Chesterton quotation popped into my head: Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors....
I’m posting in San Francisco right now, after spending the past couple of days at a Stanford conference on democratic transitions and the role that international actors play in supporting...
Al Jazeera English: A delegation of senior Middle Eastern leaders has travelled to Sudan to express international support for Omar al-Bashir, the Sudanese president, who is accused of war crimes...
If God is good, why does evil exist? Do men have free will, or are our actions predetermined? Above all, why don’t hotels ever put little tubes of toothpaste in...
