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August 27 In History 410: The sacking of Rome by the Visigoths ends after three days. Some view the Visigoths as just one more group of barbarians that helped to bring an end to the Roman Empire.  But that is only part of the story. The Visigoths were...

Ettore Spalletti’s studio is in a small industrial complex, shared with a biscuit factory, on one of the serpentine hill roads of the legendarily dangerous car race that used to burn through the coastal city of Pescara and its surrounding villages. The...

In this era of great male TV antiheroes, those of us who spend much of our time thinking about how women are represented in pop culture have become fond of asking, “What about the ladies?” As Mad Men and Breaking Bad and House of Cards have...

I worked at a popular weight loss company for three years. I loved my job there. I LOVED my clients. I loved making a connection and sharing my knowledge. And I learned a lot about nutrition, about dieting and weight loss and what works and what doesn...

Religious scholar Reza Aslan recently appeared on the FoxNews.com show Spirited Debate and the host insisted that his being a Muslim somehow affects the quality of his new book about Jesus. The whole ordeal was embarrassing for Fox News, but things are...