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Hollywood actor, producer and professional wrestler Dwayne Johnson might be good at a few things, but marriage isn’t one of them. He is divorced from his first wife (mother of his 16-year-old daughter) and has not married his current partner. It’s a pity, because he is about to become a dad for the third time and
READ MOREIt seems there’s nothing shocking when it comes to love and romance these days. Everything from random hook-ups with strangers whose last names are unknown, to women who turn the dating process into a money-making industry, seem par for the course. Put another way, the normal approach to romance has become… abnormal. It is for
READ MOREChristopher Booker is a contrarian English journalist who writes extensively on science-related issues. He has produced possibly the best available critical review of the anthropogenic global warming hypothesis. He has cast justifiable doubt on the alleged ill effects of low-level pollutants like airborne asbestos and second-hand tobacco smoke. Booker has also lobbed a few hand-grenades at Darwin’s
READ MOREIn 79 A.D., the catastrophic eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in eastern Italy covered nearby towns in ash and completely buried many of them. One of the towns that was buried in the eruption was Herculaneum, which at the time was a popular vacation spot for wealthy Romans. According to some historical accounts, Julius Caesar’s father-in-law,
READ MOREIn the Middle Ages and early modern Europe, most commoners were illiterate and learned visually through art such as Giotto depicting the life of St. Francis of Assisi and later with posted broadsides with woodcuts. After looking at these visuals, the illiterate peasants might discuss them in a group at church or in a tavern.
READ MOREIn the past two years, no less than three books on left-wing anti-Semitism have been published to generally favorable reviews: Dave Rich’s The Left’s Jewish Problem – Jeremy Corbyn, Israel and Anti-Semitism (September 2016); Antisemitism and the Left – On the Return of the Jewish Question by Bob Fine and Phil Spencer (February 2017); and
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