Author: Athenian

Tonight, take a few minutes, pull back from the computer, find a window or a balcony and gaze upwards. The mistress of the hunt, Artemis or Diana will be hosting a visit from her father, Zeus or Dias or Jupiter. Here they are...

John Tierney’s column in today’s NYT, Bombs Bursting on Air takes issue with the media’s obsession with suicide bombers. There was no larger lesson except that some insurgents were willing and able to kill...

A teacher friend of mine told the unnerving story of another teacher who got into serious trouble because students had used a cell phone to video-record him in the classroom. Ubiquitous surveillance cameras, cellphone cameras...

As her body lay rotting in the grave, her perfect silicone breasts pointed at the stars forever. Except, maybe not. In documents made public on Wednesday, health regulators estimated that up to 93 percent of silicone breast...

The Capitalist System won, there is no doubt about it. The real Communists never had a chance and the dictatorships that ruled covered in its fig-leaf are mostly gone. That debate has been indefinitely postponed if not...