When the current wave of white-collar crime was in its early stage during the 1980s, one of its most notorious figures — Michael Milken, the...

Horoscopes give the life advice that the readers want to hear. By shifting responsibility onto the stars, the reader can follow their own pl...

While I'm home for the summer, I'm having many more opportunities to observe the parenting culture, as my 6 year-old nephew is stayi...

Checking out the videos on Totally '80s today on VH1 Classic, I was struck by how common it was to shoot on film back then, despite the ...

One of the more galling rationalizations for killing a pet whose near future looks dark is that, in some way, the animal is ready for death ...

We cloak professional healers in an aura of sanctity, as though they were guardian angels and miracle workers. But they are fallible human b...

Periods of relative economic and political stability are marked by a pervasive code of reining-it-in and making-do, which prevents individua...

Great post by Paleo Retiree and comment thread over at Uncouth Reflections, centering around William Friedkin's movie Sorcerer but wand...

An earlier post looked at the dynamics of parenting styles, where folks who grew up mostly in rising-crime times choose to lock their kids ...