February 18, 2012

Enfant Terrible, or Why are American Parents Inferior?

When it comes to parenting, I find myself siding with the French.  Quelle surprise! Allow me to turn your attention to an article in a recent edition of the Wall Street Journal: "Why French Parents are Superior."  It's a catchy ti...

May 2, 2010

Postmodernism: A Unified Theory of All the Trouble in the World

Like the "fatal error" message that pops up unexpectedly on a computer, the phrase itself is menacing: "post-normal science." I ran across the phrase as I was reading Climate Change and the Death of Science. The author's explanati...