By the time you read this, the Memories Pizza "gay wedding" story will have gone the way of every overhyped, outrage-inducing Internet meme, relegated to the "you"re still talking about this after two weeks?" graveyard of planned ...
I could"ve written this column a week ago, before the National Geographic Channel's "Killing Jesus" had even aired, and still used the same opening sentence: "Killing Jesus killed in the ratings, scoring record numbers for the ...
A good historian should be an annoyance. Most people want simple, pat answers to complex historical questions. Lousy historians give the people what they want. A genuinely competent historian can"t do that, even if it means raining on a merry ...
Of all the people I"ve tussled with in my professional life, Dr. Michael Shermer, bestselling author and professional "skeptic," draws the least amount of sympathy from me. I don"t know what makes me so raw when it comes to Sherm. ...
Professor Monroe Freedman of Hofstra University died last week, and the irony is, I wouldn"t have known about it had I not been scouring Google in an attempt to kill a rapidly-spreading phony Internet meme that indirectly pertained to his work. ...
Seminal historian Professor Raul Hilberg chose a Maya Angelou PBS tai chi summit about rape and evil to make a shocking claim about Hitler. Do you know how giddy I was to write that? I was giddy because I know I"m the first person in the ...
Outside the courthouse where the trial of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is slowly getting under way, one woman stands a lonely vigil. Her name is Karin Friedemann, and she's Tsarnaev's number one fan. Her devotion to the young ...
It is the tragic reality of my being that I"m forced to justify myself every time someone learns what I did in the past and what I"ve been thrust back into doing in the present. When I"m fortunate enough to be in a room with people who ...
¡Ay Chihuahua! According to the Daily Beast's resident Islamic apologist, it's not Muslims who are to blame for terror attacks on U.S. soil ... it's those damned Latinos! And to think: I hired my gardeners without an FBI background check (that's ...
"I love Anne Frank humor as much as the next guy" is a line I could never get away with. Fortunately, I"m not the one who said it. The quote is courtesy of Jill Soloway, one of the hottest names in TV right now. Soloway is the creator ...
But of our work, the work of our order and in particular the work of this monastery, a part"indeed, the substance"is study, and the preservation of knowledge. Preservation of, I say, not search for, because the property of knowledge, as a ...
In June 1949, LIFE magazine ran a piece about the forced confession of Nazi propagandist Hans Fritzsche at the hands of Soviet interrogators. Written by anti-Nazi author Konrad Heiden, "Why They Confess" compared Fritzsche's treatment by his ...
