These novels take readers to frigid Finnish forests, the sweltering Caribbean, Jim Crow America and war-torn Paris.

Pascal’s Wager coaxed non-believers to accept Christianity on the basis of what they had to lose by not doing so, i.e., eternal damnation versus eternal bliss. Trump’s Wager coaxes acceptance of his ...

Last week I flew into Oklahoma City, a descent into flatness, a landscape so resolutely horizontal it makes you wonder if the earth gave up on drama somewhere around the 100th meridian. But the ...

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The acronym “GOAT” has become so common in colloquial conversation that it has practically lost all significance, appearing so frequently that the idea of greatness has been dulled into something ...

The Fairbanks Symphony Orchestra will open its 2025–26 season with “The Ring Without Words,” a concert version of Wagner’s monumental Ring Cycle. The performance is scheduled for 4 p.m. Sept. 21 at ...

When I started my first job in the 1970s, one of the preoccupations of the journalism world was technology – how the rapid advance of computers was going to affect production and the thousands of jobs ...

In the profound story in the Book of Exodus about the Israelites escaping hundreds of years of slavery in Egypt, there is a dramatic showdown between the God of the Bible (Yahweh) and the false gods ...

History is written by the victors, and so are its gods. Deities once worshipped as supreme were later condemned as false, their names erased, their followers silenced. Some were turned into demons, ...

(RNS) — Published 100 years ago Thursday (April 10), “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald continues to be a cautionary tale for our time. While most attention is given — by readers of the novel ...

Sebastian Gorka, the senior director for counterterrorism for the White House National Security Council, is regaling a sparse audience at February’s Conservative Political Action Conference with a ...