The origin of SARS-CoV-2, the agent that causes the disease COVID-19, remains a mystery to the public.
In “Escape From Model Land: How Mathematical Models Can Lead Us Astray and What We Can Do About It,” Erica Thompson provides a thorough treatment of the whys and wherefores of modeling.
Competition in the marketplace of ideas is based on quality, on evaluation, on free and unfettered exchange with whatever communication methods are available. Recently, however, as Big Tech companies consolidate power and influence our leaders, America is now a place where too often opinions are stifled or labeled "dangerous." Public and private figures are silenced and even banned from digital platforms.
Turning the last page of a great book is one of those bittersweet life experiences.
The Arabella network raised $1.7 billion in 2020 alone to spend toward the defeat of President Donald Trump, easily the largest amount in any year for the organization.
Even after all these years, the late John Gotti remains the public's poster boy for Cosa Nostra crime bosses.
The World War II era has been fertile ground for historians, especially those who concentrate on military history and geopolitics.
In "Mafia Democracy: How Our Republic Became a Mob Racket," author Michael Franzese claims that politicians are acting like organized crime members.
Just as the summer beach reading season arrives, Americans' disdain for leaders at various levels of government seems, like that ocean wave out in the distance, to be cresting.
F.H. Buckley's newest book, "Progressive Conservatism: How Republicans Will Become America's Natural Governing Party," will undoubtedly rankle some hardcore conservatives -- and that's the intention.
"If you can't find your empathy with your subject you shouldn't be writing the book."
In 1983, then-Senator Joe Biden called packing the Supreme Court a "bonehead idea." But on the debate stage in 2020, candidate Biden refused to answer questions about court-packing.
