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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 ...

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 ...

A stark and unsettling portrait of success, in the vein of Philip Roth and Jonathan Franzen, that revives the long-established intersection between ambition and corruption in the pursuit of the Americ ...

Sometimes certain books just sort of seem to fall into your hands, out of the blue, and resonate. Maybe it was the C.S. Lewis endorsement on the back of Arthur C. Clarke's 1954 sci-fi novel Chil ...

Shortly before 11:00 p.m, 24-year old heiress Leila Welsh and her boyfriend Richard Funk stepped into Kansas City's swinging Hotel Phillips. They walked across the palatial lobby into the Tropic ...

On the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, law professor, legal analyst, and bestselling author of The Indispensable Right Jonathan Turley explores how the unique origins of American ...

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 ...

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 ...

The battle between the power of government and individual liberty has been the enduring struggle throughout American history. When Thomas Jefferson penned the Declaration of Independence in 1776, he h ...

Venice is a city of water. Its roads, commerce, security, and success are due to the intertwining canals that appear labyrinthine to the stranger yet form a safety net for natives. For over a thousand ...