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  • Scholar: Jihadists Trying to ‘Destroy Europe through civil war’

    Scholar: Jihadists Trying to ‘Destroy Europe through civil war’0

    It has been often remarked that ISIS and other radical Muslim groups are very shrewd in their use of Western media. According to Gilles Kepel of the Paris Institute of Political Studies, a growing “Jihad Generation” in Europe wants media coverage of their terrorist acts to fuel fears of all Muslims and create chaos within

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  • Scholar: ‘Human Dignity’ Rare Before Christianity

    Scholar: ‘Human Dignity’ Rare Before Christianity0

    In the modern West, we generally take for granted that human persons have an inherent dignity and worth that forms the basis for human rights. The very first clause of the preamble to the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights reads: “Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of

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  • Scholar: ‘Fainting Couch’ Feminism Needs to Go

    Scholar: ‘Fainting Couch’ Feminism Needs to Go0

    There’s a growing narrative on college campuses that today’s students are oppressed and victims of insensitivity. Such a feeling seems to be particularly held by female students, who believe that their oppression is exacerbated by their gender. But according to scholar Christina Hoff Sommers, these young women need to get over their sensitivity and ditch

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  • Scarlett Laughs

    Scarlett Laughs0

    Strong, female characters are all the rage in Hollywood these days. In “The Force Awakens,” J.J. Abrams merely remade the 1977 “Star Wars” with a skinny girl playing Luke Skywalker. Of course, if you dare to dislike this new genre of movies you are sexist, because strong, female characters! There’s even a study “proving” those who dislike the

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  • Scaring Ourselves to Death

    Scaring Ourselves to Death0

    As a child, I was hospitalized for a month with the “Hong Kong Flu.” The doctors couldn’t cure me; I was discharged but still sick. They were surprised I recovered. From my early brush with illness, I developed a longstanding interest in why some people with possibly fatal illnesses die and others recover.  As an

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  • Scaramouche: Rogue of the French Revolution

    Scaramouche: Rogue of the French Revolution0

    A good historical novel—as Rafael Sabatini’s Scaramouche is—resembles a bridge game, where the hands and strategies are revealed only gradually. History itself unfolds irregularly, with disruptions, false starts, and surprises. Against the backdrop of complicated, vicious, and corrosive events in France in the late 1780s and early 1790s, Sabatini draws his characters from smallscale lives into the great

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