Stefan McDaniel

What drove the men who attacked Mumbai? Guy Sorman writes that the massacre “wasn’t some desperate move to make a statement. It was a carefully planned operation, under the command of sophisticated leadership . . . in order to achieve a strategic, indeed worldwide, goal.” This . . . . Continue Reading »

A recent study concludes that roughly a fifth of college-age Americans have personality disorders. It’s hard to know what to make of this. On the one hand, you shouldn’t trust a bunch of psychiatrists to decide who needs a psychiatrist. But on the other hand, my own experience suggests . . . . Continue Reading »

This story is a charming little independent film waiting to happen: “It may seem that the winter in Siberia lasts all year round; there are very few people—so who will eat ice cream here apart from the bears? That was exactly our main advantage. Our competitors didn’t take us . . . . Continue Reading »

It’s experiences like this that create cynics. . . . . Continue Reading »

Now they’re even trying to domesticate 007 . MI6 is pushing a softer image in its new recruiting campaign. One recruitment officer insists that the agency is “not looking for . . . people jumping out of windows, running around disobeying orders, drinking dry martinis, clutching women, . . . . Continue Reading »

Overheated partisan rhetoric can create the impression that the world is divided between crypto-communists and heartless capitalists, but philosopher Christopher Tollefsen urges a subtler analysis . The gist of Tollefsen’s argument is that we should acknowledge welfare rights , but it does . . . . Continue Reading »

Man, this kid is enough to throw you into a quarter-life crisis. When I was twelve my discerning tastes didn’t extend much beyond various forms of sugar and processed cheese. But, looking at young Mr. Fishman’s shoulders, I’m consoled by the thought that I totally could have . . . . Continue Reading »

A word to the wise: In making the public case for a sound sexual ethics, there are two extremes to avoid. One is the fuzzy-minded nostalgia gently mocked in ” The Village Green Preservation Society ” (” We are the Office Block Persecution Affinity/ God save little shops, china . . . . Continue Reading »

” Life Is Short. Have an Affair. ” So says an ad campaign publicizing an online adultery-facilitation service. If you’re looking for a pithy expression of the hedonistic nihilism threatening to dominate our post-Christian age, it’s hard to improve on that tagline. Then . . . . Continue Reading »

What does it say about a town that their latest Community Action Project was the theft and sale of a two-story church ? . . . . Continue Reading »