Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.

Not only was one cartoonist gunned down, but riots erupted around the world, resulting in the deaths of scores. No one could say toward what positive social end, yet free-speech absolutists were unchastened.

There is nothing worse than annotated humour.

Keith Knight is mapping out a previously unknown vector of the vast cartoon universe.

Medical decisions have been politicized. What doctor wants a state legislator in his consulting room?

Isn't it possible that self-esteem isn't causal at all, but simply the happy side effect of a sturdy character, itself the product of unambiguous moral education?

America is one of the few places where the failure to promote oneself is widely regarded as arrogance.