Here’s a puzzle for you. A magnificent actor, a robust script, terrific sets, an unsentimental story about fortitude, perseverance, self-sacrifice and loyalty. And yet it has fizzled at the box office.
In the ultimate feel-good finish, Michael Campbell, an unheralded New Zealander, picked off Tiger Woods in the US Open.
Former New York governor Mario Cuomo has proposed that an expert committee guide Congress in deciding whether human embryos are human beings. We asked former researcher and medical ethicist Dianne Irving for her comments.
By 2020 depression will be the second-largest cause of disability in the world for both men and women of all ages. So researchers are beavering away on what makes us happy. Have they got it right?
An autopsy has confirmed that Terri Shiavo did have massive brain damage. She was probably blind and unaware and could not eat or drink. But what does this prove?
G-rated films are 11 times as profitable as R-rated films, but Hollywood makes 12 times as many R-rated films. What's going on?
With a screech of tires, the Caped Crusader has burst into the summer movie market to save Gotham City from an army of villains and Warner Brothers from financial distress. Teenage boys will love it.
Why are millions of people around the world reading a mishmash of comic book history and bogus theology expressed in hackneyed prose? A review of The Da Vinci Code Hoax
Want a smarter baby? A faster baby? A blonder baby? Prepared to pay for it? You might be able to some day if transhumanists have their way.
What philosophy can justify the abuse of enemy combatants in Guantanamo Bay? The same one which justifies stem cell research and euthanasia.
What did Richard Dawkins, the world's foremost champion of Darwinism, mean by saying that he believed in evolution but could not prove it?
What we should remember Anne Bancroft for is her visceral performance in The Miracle Worker, not her role as a seductress in that ultimate 60s film, The Graduate.
Young Germans are using shock tactics to rattle the liberalism of their parents, and sending a message about tolerance to the West.
All those unspellable names and unpronounceable cities in Dostoy what's-his-name -- why should we bother if he couldn't write in the King's English?
Last year's presidential campaign saw many Catholic politicians tiptoeing through a minefield of moral issues. Could it happen again?
Good parents do more than give their children affection and provide for their needs. They must plan how they will shape their children’s character, says Andrew Mullins.
Now that France and the Netherlands have torn up the EU's roadmap to the future, what lies ahead for Europe? How will it affect the US? A review of The Cube and the Cathedral.
The mediaevals didn’t believe in a flat earth; the Galileo affair was a beat-up; and missionaries were great scientists. Any other questions about the conflict between religion and science?
Our Nigerian correspondent reflects on the meaning of the Nobel Peace prize awarded to environmental activist Wangari Maathai.
Was John Paul II responsible for the deaths of millions of African AIDS victims because he refused to sanction the use of condoms?
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