Halloween trouve son origine dans les superstitions et, malheureusement, elle en suscite encore d'anciennes et de nouvelles. Halloween, qui vient de "All Hallows Eve", était...
The news and the night sky are dominated by Mars. At a distance of only 34.6 million miles, the Red Planet is now closer to Earth than it...
March 3, 2004 -- The controversy surrounding Mel Gibson's film The Passion of the Christ reflects a deep divide concerning the moral
December 10, 2003 -- Rarely has the moral decadence of the philosophy that places "society" above the individual been better illustrated...
June 12, 2009 -- Americans are historically a generous people. Thus it’s shocking to see the National Committee for Responsible Philanthropy
Jett Travolta, the sixteen-year-old son of actors John Travolta and Kelly Preston, died recently of what the autopsy found to be a seizure..
In The Aviator, a biopic about Howard Hughes (1905-1976) starring Leonardo DiCaprio with script by John Logan, director Martin Scorsese
June 24, 2004 -- "Sing, oh Goddess, the wrath of Peleus' son Achilles, which brought pains a thousand-fold upon the Achaians." So opens the
With Revenge of the Sith, George Lucas faced the same problem as did the classical Greek playwrights. Their audiences already knew the...
January 17, 2009 -- January 2009 finds the issue of race front-and-center with the celebration of black civil rights leader Martin Luther...
June 11, 2003 -- One Republican is finally making moral arguments to support his tax policies. Unfortunately, they’re the wrong arguments
The Astronomical League, the world's largest federation of amateur astronomers, has declared May 10th to be this year's Astro
September 8, 2005 -- Another example of how Europeans and Americans are drifting apart culturally and politically can be seen in the film
April 5, 2003 -- I am trained as an economist, and so it especially irks me when ignorant journalists attempt to comment on the economy...
Les fêtes de fin d'année sont une période de réflexion spirituelle, de célébration et de commerce effréné. Ces activités peuvent sembler incompatibles. Elles
January 1, 2001 -- The classics, academic freedom, and justice often seem all but dead on college campuses today. Routinely, colleges and
June 28, 2003 -- On July 4th, we celebrate the establishment of the United States of America by our Founding Fathers. Since 1776, America
The U.S. Supreme Court is allowing a local government to kick 87-year-old Wilhelmina Dery out of the house in which she was born, along with
September 10, 2004 -- On September 9, Frank Quattrone, a prominent investment banker formerly with Credit Suisse First Boston, was sentenced
February 2, 2004 -- Given the fact that the title of director Denys Arcand's previous film was The Decline of the American Empire, that his
