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In our Semiquincentennial year, America's civic muscle needs to be exercised. Years ago, my parents and I used to watch Watters' World (hosted by Jesse Watters) on the O'Reilly Facto ...

Tuesday, 4 November 2025 Edison bulbs hung low over the reclaimed-wood table at a popular Brooklyn hangout. A chalkboard listed the Yuletide Farm-to-Table Specials: Roast Chicken with Rosemary ($31),

Excerpted from The Mighty Continent: A Candid History of Modern Europe (Creed & Culture), published on January 20, 2026. For three reasons, over the years 1890 to 1914 the great powers of Europe g ...

I find failure fascinating. My first scholarly articles explored well-meaning Army General William Westmoreland's Vietnam War disaster. I never thought I'd see that happen again. Then came ...

Rosalia is a young Spanish popstar, but if you're American like me, you probably had no idea who she was until a couple months ago. To me, the new generation of Latin musicians -- rappers l ...

Excerpted from The Body of This Death: Letters from the Last Archbishop of Lancaster (Word on Fire Academic) +++++ Note to the Reader: I was given this manuscript two years ago by ...

On a recent Tuesday evening in Nashville, I stood for an hour in a long line on the front porch of the Nashville Songwriters Association building on Music Row, along with about a hundred other would-b ...

It wasn't so long ago that if you wanted some boudin, Louisiana's tasty and versatile pork-liver-veggie-and-rice sausage, you had to live in or visit Louisiana to get some. In fact, throug ...

Michael Clune's debut novel Pan shares little beside its title and first-person perspective with the nineteenth-century Norwegian novella by Knut Hamsun about the erotic yearnings and pantheisti ...

There is a lot to criticize about the widely mocked Blue Square Alliance Super Bowl ad. In it, two bullies knock into David, a Jewish boy, and attach to his backpack a yellow sticky note with the word ...