"An opera has to have a foundation; something big, like unhappy love, or vengeance, or some point of honor. Because people are like that, you know. There they sit, all those stockbrokers and rich surgeons and insurance men, and they look so solemn and...

The New York Times, which keeps professional and compulsive Sarah Palin haters such as Maureen Dowd and Frank Rich on its payroll, is sometimes good for a surprise and none was bigger than the review of Going Rogue by Stanley Fish yesterday. Instead of...

Because there's no escaping the COP15 party, we're getting into the alternative energy groove here with Collapsing at Your Doorstep by Air France — not from Paris, surprisingly, but from Gothenburg. The music of the inscrutable Swedes has been...

"Certainly, if a man wants to quarrel with all his friends, and to double the hatreds of all his enemies, he had better become Prime Minister." "Are you really sorry that such was his fate, Lady Glen?" "Ah, I sometimes ask myself that question, but I...

"The British Meteorological Office to Re-Examine 160 Years Of Climate Data." Climategate gathered momentum. Google entered the dictionary field. England partied to the sound of the best group since the Beatles. Scientists claimed that all men watch...