As you know from an earlier post, I am what you may call very pro-watch.  So it will come as no surprise to you, that I very heartened

In the 1950s, detergents which had been manufactured as a temporary cleaning solution to replace the World War II shortages, surpassed the real thing in popularity and so

I was impressed with this speaker the moment I unpacked the box. The rugged heavy box with expensive printing that oozed quality and was much heavier than I

In the middle of the Atlantic piece on ISIS, there is an interview with Graeme Wood who points out that one of the most effective recruiting tools ISIS

In one of her essays, one of my favorite historians, Barbara Tuchman, defined history as “emotion plus action recollected or, in the case of latter-day historians, reflected on

Could those things possibly be satellites?  That is what the SETI Institute hopes to find out.  It should have at least preliminary results sometime this week.  In the

The Revolution matters in American politics; matters in ways that are perhaps inexplicable to most Europeans.  In matters as diverse (and as modern) as healthcare reform, religion in

We live in a complicated world.  The fact that Michael Burry, a man with Asperger’s, was one of the literally handful of people to foresee the housing collapse

In one of her columns, Barbara Wallraff once exclaimed, “What is it about language that gets people so riled?”  Oliver Kamm, in his really quite excellent book Accidence

Have you ever had a feeling that you should or shouldn’t do something?  Did you follow through with it?  If not, did you later regret it? I ask,