The ironic fact that so many powerful and successful contemporary women refuse to identify as feminists—the same feminist movement that did so much to help these women achieve their empowered status in the first place—points to... Read More

Let’s take a moment to look back at the twentieth century in order to appreciate the stunning changes wrought by the two great wars. “Appreciate” may be the wrong word in solemn remembrance of the Holocaust, but from the standpoint... Read More

It’s not your imagination—you’ve been hearing and reading a whole lot more about autism in the past few years. The reason is because the medical industry didn’t have a clue about the disease until quite recently. Which points to... Read More

We thought you could use a dose of good news about the environment, so we’re pleased to introduce Leigh Calvez, a citizen naturalist here to offer us a report from the whale front. The author of The Breath of a Whale: The Science and... Read More

With apologies, this week’s interview requires us to go to hell. Hey, back off. It’s not our fault. The blame falls squarely on the shoulders of reviewer Katie Asher for falling in love with one of the quirkiest books we’ve seen... Read More

Let’s play a word association game about stereotyping. What comes to mind when you read: Muslim in a hijab; Harvard-educated, white male judge; white guy in NASCAR cap with NRA stickers on bumper of pickup; Jewish philanthropist;... Read More

Reviewer Peter Dabbene Interviews Norm Harper and Louie Joyce, Author and Illustrator of Haphaven / Is luck, like, real? Does the universe bestow runs of good fortune or bad, and can we actually tip the scale with rabbits’ feet,... Read More

As the world’s faithful struggle for proof of the existence of God, the rest of us weep at all the evidence showing that humans have long been playing God (or, Antichrist) with the green Earth—from hunting woolly mammoths and... Read More