Christmas is a time of peace and good will, happy children and kindly adults, presided over by a merry old gent in red with a staff of flying reindeer and toy-building elves. In America, that’s been the case for the last century and a... Read More

For purveyors of college sports, athletic recruitment is like the weather: many complain, but few do anything about it. Scandals abound concerning young people (many of whom, based on their academic achievement, have no place in the... Read More

Psychiatric illnesses are among today’s greatest causes of morbidity and mortality. According to the National Institute for Mental Health, 75 million Americans suffer from common psychiatric illnesses, while 38 million annually seek... Read More

“By choosing to work through ordinary people-with obvious flaws and frailties—God ensures that when something powerful happens, He alone will get the glory.” This concept, from the author’s introduction, is the basis for this... Read More

“Can the mayhem and cruelty that are war be made into something both beautiful and honest?” asks the author in his introduction. If judged by the photographer’s resplendent works and Gramm’s meditative verse, the answer is a... Read More

In the old days, choosing a child’s school was easy: the child simply went to the closest public school, or to a private, religion-based school. But today’s parents have a vast array of options available to them: open enrollment,... Read More

This book is held together, curiously, by scissors. Scissors are the weapon of choice for the characters presiding in this collection of stories-although fountain pens, knives, and curses are also popular. But why shouldn’t scissors be... Read More

Ads proclaiming Ivory Soap to be “ninety-nine and 44/100 percent pure” are cultural icons that go back over a hundred years. Crisco, Tide, Duncan Hines-these Procter & Gamble products are so familiar as to be an integral part of... Read More