by Tony W. Cartledge | Sep 29, 2010 | Opinion
A new poll released yesterday by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life revealed results that seem quite surprising at first: on a pop quiz of religious knowledge, people who identified themselves as atheists and agnostics scored better than anyone who identified...
by Becca Hartman | Sep 29, 2010 | Opinion
There was a flashpoint of violence against African immigrants in South Africa over two weeks in May 2008. At 135 locations, the violence resulted in 62 deaths, 670 injuries, dozens raped, more than 100,000 displaced and hundreds of thousands of dollars in looting and...
by Colin Harris | Sep 29, 2010 | Opinion
For years John Grisham has been capturing readers with his page-turning stories of the legal arena of life. His most recent book starts a new shelf in his legal fiction library as he targets a younger reading audience with “Theodore Boone, Kid Lawyer.”...
by William Brackney | Sep 29, 2010 | Opinion
The U.S. news media is fundamentally changing our understanding of an election. For the better part of 250 years, Americans have participated in or witnessed a political process that has involved two- or four-year cycles of selecting candidates that have culminated in...
by John D. Pierce | Sep 28, 2010 | Opinion
Marketers can be pretty good at hitting their targets. But they are not mind readers. The small ads along the right side of Facebook profiles are customized according to the perceived interests of the individual. I’ve never responded to one. As is often the case...
by Monty Self | Sep 28, 2010 | Opinion
For the last 14 years, I have enjoyed teaching philosophy and ethics. Where else can you get paid to sit around and reflect upon the significance of ideas? If philosophers understand and agree upon nothing else, it is this axiom: Ideas are dangerous things. Ideas are...
