It’s a rich irony that after decades warning about how Democrats would corrupt our country with state-sponsored atheism and moral relativism, Republicans can now lay claim to perhaps the most godless ...

The Commons Cofffeehouse’ down Flower Road is sometimes too busy a place to notice certain things. Quite apart from the comings and goings of regular and random clientele, there always seems to be ...

There is a general prejudice that hard emotions are bad and easy emotions are good. We spend a good deal of time negating half the emotions we experience because of this. One could argue that this ...

Urmi Bhattacheryya and Aditya Prakash sued their university for alleged racial discrimination A dispute that began over heating a dish in a microwave has ended with two Indian students winning a ...

This year, Black History Month marks its 100th anniversary. At this pivotal moment — on the eve of America’s 250th anniversary — Black History Month stands as a necessary corrective to the nation’s ...

The case of a woman seeking refuge in the United States from her tribe's ritual of female genital mutilation raises the question: Are human rights universal? The girl's story reads like a fairy tale.

He sensed a society that abandons fairness for the sake of political expediency is already halfway to tyranny.

In September, the Swedish government released a national kulturkanon, or culture canon: a list of a hundred art works and accomplishments that define the nation. There were some expected items—a play ...

A dispute that began over heating a dish in a microwave has ended with two Indian students winning a $200,000 settlement from a US university. Aditya Prakash and his fiancee, Urmi Bhattacheryya, told ...

A dispute that began with a comment about a student's reheated lunch has ended with a six-figure payout from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Aditya Prakash and his partner, fellow anthropology ...

The dreary, punishing experience of air travel creates its own backlash. Airlines and their various torture devices are the punchline of countless jokes. This creates a prime opportunity for airships ...