Fox VP Says Context Matters in Measuring Baseball “Consider the average of those four World Series played at 10-year intervals.  On average those series lasted six games and would have ranked fourth among primetime entertainment in their respective years.  This year’s series went five games and would rank third for the season-to-date.  Everything and nothing […]

In the 1970s, Scientists Discovered a 2 Billion-Year-Old Nuclear Reactor in West Africa There was once a naturally occuring nuclear power plant in Africa.

Michel Houellebecq’s ‘Submission’ – The New York Times

Why Snoopy Is Such a Controversial Figure to ‘Peanuts’ Fans “Snoopy was the polar opposite of Charlie Brown, who had nothing but failures, losses, and flaws. But were the two quite so radically far apart? Snoopy’s critics are wrong, and so are readers who think that Snoopy actually believes his self-delusions. Snoopy may be shallow […]

Comparing the United States and Nordic Nations: Is American “Inequality” Bad if It Simply Means Some People Get Richer Faster than other People Get Richer? “So here’s the bottom line. If you’re a poor person in America, your income is as high as the incomes of your counterparts in Scandinavia. But you have a much […]

The transformation of David Brooks “If Brooks could inspire journalists to engage in public discussion of morality, politics and current events would not be relegated in favor of abstract reflections. Instead, moral scholarship would inform analysis of just about any issue: student debt, income inequality, national defense, healthcare reform, mass incarceration, and on, and on. […]