Shame on all you nebulous, all-purpose words—having sacrificed your uniqueness, what do you have now that your true meaning is lost to the ages? Take “nature,” that most lovely of ideas now defined to exclude humans and things... Read More

Behind bars: might as well mean left behind, given up on, out of sight-out of mind. In effect, our criminal justice system routinely throws away the key—to helping prisoners rejoin society, support themselves and their families, pursue... Read More

We’re blessed as a species—no need to play the fight or flight game anymore, food arrives at our doorsteps minutes after we make the request, disease is mostly understood and cured with medicine—but that doesn’t mean life is easy... Read More

Cross this grand land of ours and you’ll scarcely find a more culturally rich region than South Carolina—with its strong African and Caribbean influences, bountiful coastal waters, and three hundred-plus years of adventurous cooking... Read More

Look back over the past twenty five years or so and put your finger on some of the ways society has changed for the better. LGBTQ+ rights, for example. Would you have guessed that gay marriage would be overwhelmingly accepted now, when... Read More

Today’s interview topic got us thinking: does the Republican-Democrat political divide also extend to eating meat? According to a recent YouGov survey—after correcting for variables like age, education, sex, ethnicity, household... Read More

Consider the human heart—evolutionary wonder, critical part of our anatomy, susceptible to all manner of disorder making heart disease the leading cause of death to Americans, with many hundreds of billions of dollars going to... Read More

Today’s interview brings to mind a splendid term we were introduced to last year by Kristen Sollee, a practicing witch and the author of Witch Hunt: A Traveler’s Guide to the Power & Persecution of the Witch. In her travels to famous... Read More