To those outside the United States it is simply common sense that US handgun laws facilitate handgun crime (handguns including semi-automatics!). It is so obvious to everyone else that the logic behind the opposite view is regarded with amazed fascination. Why, if handgun ownership is such a good thing are shootings elsewhere in the world, …
Americans have a third fewer close friends and confidants than just two decades ago — a sign that people may be living lonelier, more isolated lives than in the past. In 1985, the average American had three people in whom to confide matters that were important to them, says a study in today’s American Sociological …
Epicurus, the Athenian philosopher, included friendship among life’s necessities. "Only beasts dine alone," he is said to have exclaimed. Friends provide amusement, information, and a bracing and beautiful feeling of human connection. "Without friends," says Joseph Epstein, former editor of the American Scholar, "we are all lost." But friends can also be "an immense complication, …
As I was sweeping the road down our block this afternoon I thought to myself, "Isn’t this a wonderful land of opportunity? Where else in the world would I be given the opportunity to be a street sweeper. In my own country they would protest: "No, no," they’d cry, "you can’t do that! You are …
Why is it necessary to WORSHIP God? A grown-up God doesn’t need to be worshipped. A grown-up God can see through the self-interested words used in a hundred tongues to curry favor? Were God to exist, would not the Sunday worship of millions not be an insult to His mighty and overwhelming intelligence? Do the …
