Books

A paper published in Royal Society Open Science found that many medieval book covers previously thought to be made from deer or boar skin were in fact made of sealskin. What do you think? “I’ve always thought seals would look great…

Is the evidence for God’s existence weak? Well, a new book by New York Times columnist Ross Douthat argues otherwise. In Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious, Douthat maintains not only that everyone should take God seriously, but that…

LOS ANGELES—Thanking everyone who had helped her make the world a more unequal and uneducated place, actress and comedian Roseanne Barr announced Monday that her illiteracy charity had snatched its 100 millionth book from a child.…

In the opening weeks of 2022, a California state senator took to the site then known as Twitter to promote his bill that would allow children from the age of 12 and up to get mRNA injections without parental knowledge or consent. Sen. Scott…

Churchill once said of John Foster Dulles that he was “the only case I know of a bull who carries his own China shop around with him.” Had Churchill miraculously lived another 60 odd years, I think he would agree that when it comes to this…

An 81-year-old woman returned an overdue book to a New Jersey library after discovering it among her grandfather’s old things, finding that the book, Home-Made Toys For Girls And Boys, was borrowed in March 1926. What do you think?…

When Dorothea von Ertmann, a friend and student of Beethoven’s, lost her only young child, Beethoven learned of her inconsolable grief. Instead of offering words of consolation, he sat at the piano and played for her, improvising for an…

They call themselves the New Right. They’re also known as the Online Right, and during Trump’s first term, the Alt-Right. Many of them are proud provocateurs with questionable pseudonyms – Bronze Age Pervert, Endlessbonerz, Raw Egg…

The good is up for grabs. American liberals had their shot — and failed. As Ross Douthat put it, recent years have provided “a case study in how a seemingly hegemonic worldview can pass very rapidly from consolidating power to squandering…

COLUMBUS, OH—Reeling as she took stock of the damage done in her debilitated state, area woman Brittany Marino told reporters Wednesday she had sworn off Ambien for good after she woke up and saw how many library books she had put on hold…