Occidents Will Happen

I have never been a soccer fan…except for that weekend in Portugal in 2004…but I confess to being entranced by this summer’s World Cup actio...

Ross Douthat thinks that we're missing a vibrancy and an optimism that accompanies high birth rates. That may be true, probably not, bu...

Sportswriter Dave Zirin illustrates how America may have failed its youth: the Europeans are beating us at basketball. It's surprising ...

I thought I should be consistent with the starry-eyed Wilsonianism, not to say total naivete, of this blog, so here goes: Europe is doing aw...

America has avoided a shutdown of its government but still inspired Joshua Keating to wonder why our European counterparts, basket cases t...

David Byrne wonders how access to an unending font of information can trivialize the act of reading. The singer and blogger thinks back to ...

A serious challenge to the United Kingdom's electoral traditions is in the offing. Nick Clegg will probably force one of the two dominan...