What Does It Take to Go Down into the Earth for Coal?
Iain Murray's grandfather was a pit deputy at Whitburn Colliery in County Durham. He has some thoughts on the Montcoal Mining Disaster.
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Food for Thought
People who grow their own dinner often talk about self-sufficiency. But there is much more to the homesteading movement than that.
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Theodore Dalrymple on Self-Esteem vs. Self-Respect
There is hardly any undesirable behavior or experience that has not been attributed, in the press and on the air, in books and in private conversations, to low self-esteem, from eating too much to mass murder.
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Polkinghorne's Unseen Realities
A particle physicist turned Anglican priest, Sir John Polkinghorne talks about things we can't see in religion and science.
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John Polkinghorne's Unseen Realities
A physicist turned Anglican priest, Sir John Polkinghorne talks about what we can't see in religion and science.
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Christine Rosen on the Plague of the Plagiarists
Recent years have also witnessed an increase in what might be called plagiarism-by-design: authors who liberally lift passages from others' work without attribution but justify the theft by calling it a "pastiche."
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David Rieff: Forgetting Haiti. It's Bound to Happen. Then What?
Thanks to YouTube and the fact that even many very cheap cell phones have cameras nowadays, we who live in the rich world could observe this havoc all but instantaneously. But what purpose did this witnessing (most emphatically not "Witness") serve for us or for the Haitian people?
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Good Habits
What can cloistered nuns who pray all day (and have never heard of Oprah) teach the rest of us?
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