Recently, online fashion retailer Net-a-Porter caused a viral sensation with its #WorldMostLovedCEO video that featured an over-the-top farewell celebration for its departing CEO, Mark Sebba. In a ...

The film Don Jon, recently released in theaters, has spurred a widespread media discussion about the ills of pornography. NPR, the Atlantic, and Ethika Politika all have interesting stories on the ...

When I told a writer friend of mine I was writing about sentimentality, he said, surprisingly, “Are you for it or against it?” Conventional wisdom holds that sentimentality is categorically repugnant, ...

Let's explore Christmas: is it a time of genuine celebration or just an opportunity for unbridled consumerism?

A little more than a century ago, Sherwood Anderson’s “Winesburg, Ohio” introduced a new kind of American novel: one composed of short stories that share a setting and that elevate, one by one, ...

Mom and apple pie. Dogs and cats. Weddings and babies. God and country. We call people “sentimental” when they express unusually strong emotional attachments to events, objects, places, eras and ...

The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum recently announced the 2020 Modern Baseball Era (1970-1987) ballot which is comprised of nine distinguished ball players and one legendary executive. A 16 ...

Conservatives recognize that social order is hard to achieve and easy to destroy, that it is held in place by discipline and sacrifice, and that the indulgence of criminality and vice is not an act of ...

Raoul Moat persuaded himself that he was as much a victim as the people he shot. The many tributes to him show that others take this seriously Credit: Photo: NORTH NEWS Turning on the radio one day, I ...