Reading Time: 3 minutes The talents of some children are like buried treasure. But you can trust a parent to see these precious gifts and help unearth them
Category: Books
The tangled tragedy of Mary, Queen of Scots
Reading Time: 4 minutes Over the past four-plus centuries, Mary’s reputation has waxed and waned. A movie due out this year should put a positive spin on it
We don’t want to go where trade wars have taken us before
Reading Time: 4 minutes Trump is obviously not deterred by the warnings from economists of a global trade war that could usher in a new depression
The man who cheated death again and again
Reading Time: 3 minutes Caryl Chessman won eight stays of execution until the gas chamber finally caught up with him on May, 2, 1960
Embrace the moment, regardless of the circumstances
Reading Time: 3 minutes By living lives of integrity, by doing our best despite our imperfections, we find a way to move forward
Paving the way with quiet dignity
Reading Time: 4 minutes Larry Doby was the second African American to play Major League Baseball. His road to greatness was no less difficult for being second
Ronald Reagan’s remarkable mission to Moscow
Reading Time: 4 minutes The American president’s loathing for nuclear weapons and his desire to see new freedoms in the Soviet Union framed his trip
Marxism “the opium of the intellectuals”
Reading Time: 4 minutes On the 200th anniversary of Marx’s birth, let’s admit Marxism has nothing useful to say to the modern world
Why authoritarian populists are destined to fail
Reading Time: 4 minutes A review of Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now: the Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
The diet shell game
Reading Time: 4 minutes Stick to the evidence when reporting on – and endorsing – food studies. We need real solutions to obesity and Type 2 diabetes, not book sales