The Trouble with Swallowing Syria
WARNING: This is not an article about Miley Cyrus’ performance at the VMAs on Sunday. It is an analysis of…
Lost in Austen Adaptations
While at the movies this past weekend, I saw a trailer for the new film Austenland, which apparently features Kerri…
The Inevitability of Religion
Author's Note: The following is a brief essay written back in 2011 which is only now being made public. It…
The CIA Fesses Up…60 Years too Late
Did you hear the big news? No, not that Bradley Manning wants to undergo hormone therapy and prefers for us to refer…
A Bad Week to be Bo
While most of the news these days seems to be an endless train of unrelated tittle tattle, every so often…
What Do NSA Violations Tell Us About The Nature of Government?
The Washington Post has been filled with revelations recently about an internal audit at the NSA which revealed thousands of…
Niebuhr on the Road
It used to be that when I would go on a long road trip, I would spend most of my…
Egypt’s Never Ending Revolution
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUNVPKBQdPo People often ask me what I think about the situation in Egypt, knowing that I worked for the Egyptian…
A Change of Strategy in the War on Drugs
28 grams of crack cocaine can earn you a $28,000 per year prison sentence. A growing consensus of policy makers…
The Endangered Female Bible Major
Today, we turn our attention to that rarest of species, the female Bible major at an evangelical or otherwise conservative…