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  • Historic Iwo Jima Footage Shows Individual Marines Amid the Larger Battle

    Historic Iwo Jima Footage Shows Individual Marines Amid the Larger Battle0

    When most Americans think of the World War II battle for Iwo Jima – if they think of it at all, 75 years later – they think of one image: Marines raising the U.S. flag atop Mount Suribachi, the island’s highest point. That moment, captured in black and white by Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal

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  • Duchess Kate’s Advice for Raising Happy Kids

    Duchess Kate’s Advice for Raising Happy Kids0

    The Duchess of Cambridge, aka Kate Middleton, has spoken publicly for the first time about her experiences of motherhood – and she’s remarkably down to earth. Kate’s comments on parenting were made in the context of a longer interview about early childhood development with the “Happy Mum, Happy Baby” podcast. While a podcast is a modern

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  • Twitter Piles on Richard Dawkins Over Eugenics Tweet

    Twitter Piles on Richard Dawkins Over Eugenics Tweet0

    Twitter may not be the best medium for explaining the science of eugenics to a wary public, as the sometime Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford, Richard Dawkins, discovered this week. Professor Dawkins, now aged 78, renowned as an evolutionary biologist and as the author of best-sellers about genetics

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  • It’s Bernie’s Party Now

    It’s Bernie’s Party Now0

    It’s starting to dawn on people – not least of all Democrats running for president – that Bernie Sanders might win the Democratic presidential nomination. The longtime independent socialist senator from Vermont rolled up yet another early state win, this time a landslide victory in the Nevada caucuses. And he may have solved the problem that doomed his 2016

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  • Masculinity, Mixed-Signals, and the Male Retreat From Women

    Masculinity, Mixed-Signals, and the Male Retreat From Women0

    • February 24, 2020

    It’s official. Harvey Weinstein has been found guilty of rape and sexual assault. #MeToo movers and shakers around the world can rejoice – as well they should – over the conviction of a man who committed inexcusable crimes. But while Weinstein deserves to be put away, has the movement his fall spawned gotten out of

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  • The Truth About ‘Socialism’ as Told by Scandinavian Leaders

    The Truth About ‘Socialism’ as Told by Scandinavian Leaders0

    It says a lot about the 2020 Democratic field when Michael Bloomberg’ defense of capitalism became a point of offense during his first presidential debate. “We’re not going to throw out capitalism,” Bloomberg said. “We’ve already tried that. Other countries tired that. It was called communism and it just didn’t work.” Senator Bernie Sanders, the self-described

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