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Star Wars: Revenge of the Self

Last May, perhaps the most highly-anticipated new film of the new millennium opened to rave reviews and record-smashing box office…

A Tribute To Coffee

There is one thing on which our lives depend. It is woven into the very fabric of our culture. It…

Coffee Culture: How to Celebrate the Human Mind

The life of the mind has a friend in modern culture: the coffee house. Sprinkled throughout college towns, dotted at…

Sex, the Suburbs, and What Housewives Are Desperate For

Breaking every viewer record and emerging as the #1 primetime TV sensation, ABC's Desperate Housewives has been called the Sex…

The Wild West

I want to elaborate some on a point I made to introduce my editorial: that there is no general cultural…

Reshaping Nature

Every week there are technological breakthroughs and innovations in crucial fields of production, such as computers and medicine. But you'd…

The “Hate Crimes” Bandwagon

On January 14 of this year, the bodies of all four members of an Egyptian family were discovered dead in…

The Academic “Rights” Smokescreen

By now, no doubt, you've heard the story of Ward Churchill, the renegade University of Colorado professor who is under…