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On the occasion I decide to spend $4.50 on a drip coffee from an artisanal shop, the barista serving me is usually a bubbly woman with a septum piercing and a tasteful forearm tattoo--or, if male ...

The big power forwards and centers, wide as canyons in the shoulders and waist, used to bludgeon each other in the post like elephant seals. That was basketball once -- Charles Barkley backing do ...

Not until quite recently did American colleges cease being free expression zones. After University of Chicago professor Allan Bloom sounded the alarm with his bestselling The Closing of the American M ...

As any fan of Batman knows, the main draw of the franchise are the villains. While Batman himself has an interesting story--a billionaire who trains to become a vigilante detective after witnessi ...

In a new book entitled BACKBONE: Why American Populism Should Be Welcomed, Not Feared, author Karl Zinsmeister reports on middle Americans living all across the country, and why they want dramatic cha ...

"The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury." This aphorism appears in Meditations, a collection of philosophical musings written by Marcus Aurelius, a 2nd century Roman ...

You already have an opinion on this man. You may like him, you may dislike him. You may have a long list of gripes about things he has said or things you imagine he has said: "He claimed that dr ...

In 2005 I married a man whose detailed thoughts about parenting, childcare and family life I knew very little about. We'd agreed that we wanted children--or, rather, I'd said I wanted ...

A thirty-something indie rocker gallantly holds the hair back for his much younger girlfriend as she rails a line of coke off the coffee table in the opening moments of Matthew Gasda's gleeful,

Mike Tyson stands alone in an empty ring, throwing punches at ghosts. The crowd screams his name, but he doesn't hear them anymore. At fifty-eight, his muscles still ripple beneath flabby, weathered s ...