The post below on the disappearance of public showering in cocooning times got me thinking about where else we've seen a major change i...

Trump has been running on an implicit anti-media platform since the beginning. Within the mainstream media, and especially during the nation...

Looking through old horror movies, it's striking how many shower scenes there are, from Psycho through the Friday the 13th series. Some ...

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It has become clear that the attempt to popularize scholarship on the Bible has not led to a more nuanced understanding of Western civilizat...

A recent poll shows Ben Carson ahead of Donald Trump in Iowa, which may be a temporary fluke or may signal that Carson will win the state...

After the peak of high-energy music in the 1980s, the hip new thing was to play low-key acoustic covers of songs that originally had electri...

For the better part of a decade, the former fast food giants McDonald's and Burger King have been losing business in the US, and have be...

The only part of Donald Trump's platform so far that is not populist is his tax plan (read it here ), but we shouldn't let that get ...