Confession, the Catholic and Orthodox practice of listing one’s sins in the presence of a priest who then offers absolution and is sworn to secrecy under pain of eternal damnation, has long been a source of fascination and scorn from those outside these faiths. The belief that priests are wellsprings of damaging and compromising information […]
The worst thing about the Golden State Warriors advancing in the National Basketball Association playoffs is that we must be subjected to the dirty plays and race-baiting of Draymond Green. Green picked up his fifth technical foul of the playoffs after intentionally striking Minnesota’s Naz Reid in the face. In just nine playoff games, Green […]
Long before Thomas Edison was born in Milan, Ohio, Sir Humphry Davy, a British chemist and inventor, created the first incandescent light by passing an electric current through a thin strip of platinum. This produced an incandescent electric light to create the first “electric arc lamp” between charcoal electrodes. Like many early innovators, Davy is […]
Antisemitism has taken root at Haverford College. That is why I called its president, Wendy Raymond, to testify before Congress earlier this week. She did not meet my expectations. Since Hamas terrorists butchered more than 1,200 innocent people on Oct. 7, 2023, antisemitism in all its forms is now a daily occurrence at schools across […]
“Pregnancy costs extra; it’s $90 per month.” This line from the latest season of Black Mirror, Charlie Brooker’s Twilight Zone-inspired sci-fi anthology on Netflix, succinctly captures the show’s persistent knack for extrapolating unsettling trends in modern technology. Season 7, featuring a star-studded cast, including Paul Giamatti, Rashida Jones, and Awkwafina, grapples with everything from pesky subscription […]
The term “grifter” has become inseparable from our political landscape, especially in the era of social media. While it’s overused about as much as the phrase “woke Right,” at its core, it describes political hacks who are motivated solely by capitalizing on any given situation for their own financial benefit. Combine this with our society’s […]
Democrats come from the party that stands for feminism and democracy. Unless, of course, you are a female lawmaker and oppose biological males competing in girls sports. Then that all goes out the window. At least, that’s what’s happening in the case of state Rep. Laurel Libby, a Maine Republican who is facing an undemocratic, […]
Graduating seniors who were told they should study technology fields, such as computers, are receiving a nasty surprise as they discover the jobs simply are not out there and that they face competition from foreign workers admitted under a variety of immigration programs, most conspicuously, the notorious H-1B visa program. The very purpose of the […]
Artificial intelligence can do some incredible things. According to a thread on X, a father asked Grok to diagnose his daughter’s X-ray, and it did it faster than the doctor’s office. But there are also great risks to AI usage. Is AI like the iPad and iPhone that we thought would be great for children, until […]
Over the weekend, I had the honor of traveling to Romania, at the invitation of their Permanent Electoral Authority, to observe the first round of its presidential election held on May 4. I witnessed firsthand an electoral process that not only met, but in many ways exceeded, international democratic standards. As a member of the Federal […]
President Donald Trump wants to boost domestic manufacturing, but one sector has already massively increased output — of bogus news stories by hostile and biased media. High productivity of superficial, misleading, and hostile “news” has always characterized Trump’s 10 years in politics. But it’s worth examining afresh because the 2024 election briefly encouraged hope that […]
On May 5, millionaires, billionaires, and CEOs shelled out a reported $1.5 million per plate to dine with President Donald Trump. The proceeds from the night went to a political action committee controlled by Trump. It sure looked like wealthy people and businessmen paid for access to the president, who wields great power over the […]
The gavel falls, and another executive order hits the skids. Federal judges, cloaked in black robes and armed with injunctions, have become the bane of President Donald Trump’s second term, much like they were for President Franklin D. Roosevelt nearly a century ago. But Trump is involved in an important fight over the legitimate powers […]
