Brett Scruton

One of the ever-burning questions about millennials is whether or not we deserve the stereotype that we're lazy and entitled. This often comes down to clashes with our parental generation, the baby boomers. A recent YouTube satire tackled this…

Syrian activist Razan Zaitouneh, described as "the woman revolutionary in a male-dominated war" by a fellow activist, has been kidnapped along with her husband and two colleagues from a Damascus suburb. In addition to the physical loss of an active…

There has been ample coverage on the recent Minneapolis mayoral election, which featured a staggering 35 candidates. Little attention has been paid to the race beyond that count. But despite its initial craziness, this election might actually be the…

The world has been obsessed with dismantling the Assad regime's chemical weapons, but the casualties by conventional means during this ongoing conflict have regrettably been bypassed in most media coverage. The most recent and horrific trend in…

We all wish money grew on trees, but now that wish became just a little bit true. Scientists in Australia have discovered that certain eucalyptus trees sport gold flakes on their leaves because the roots of the trees suck up gold deposits deep in…

A study on the truth about lying might surprise the religiously devoted. In an experiment on students at the University of Regina in Saskatchewan, those for "whom religion was more important to their lives" were amongst those more likely to lie for…

Big shout-out to Facebook, who thinks graphic violence is suitable for the social media site, but not the human body. The latest stir with the site’s restriction policies is the lifting of a ban on videos featuring human decapitations. While someone…

We all have that one substitute teacher story, but it usually doesn't involve the sub passing out from heroin use in front of a class of 11 students. That is exactly what happened at Northgate Middle/High School in Pittsburgh, Penn. on Wednesday.…

The silent trolls of the internet, the NSA, are at it again. The Washington Post first reported that the NSA has been gathering hundreds of millions of contact and buddy lists for email and instant messaging accounts across the world. Either the NSA…

In an age of whistle-blower crackdowns, journalists and sources can now look to a new technology that looks to be the most promising tool for protecting anonymous sources yet: SecureDrop. The Freedom of the Press Foundation, a non-profit for…

Anyone who thinks attempts at exorcism are only on-screen nowadays is terribly wrong. Four men in France are now on trial after they bound a teenage girl to a bed in the manner of a crucifixion crucified manner and attempted to expel "demons" from…

This Friday, the Nobel Peace Prize recipient will be named. In a year with unfathomable conflict and chaos, there are still notable gains in the betterment of the world. Amid the buzz on the internet, numerous names have appeared again and again.…

The first bout of superstition has hit the upcoming Sochi Olympics through a bad omen as the Olympic flame literally extinguished upon route to the Kremlin. The flame, which is never supposed to go out, blew out as the man running with the flame…

Here's a shitty story that the administration at Yale probably doesn't want to circulate. Apparently Yale has a problem with unknown students defecating in laundry facilities on campus. First reports came out in early September of students happening…

These exist. And, if you need to make sure you don't have the wrong pictures, these are indeed religiously-inspired sex toys. Manufacturer Divine Interventions has a line of nine different religious icons for your "pleasure." For instance, there's…

Buddhists rioting in western Myanmar have stabbed a 94-year old Muslim woman to death during a massive riot where the agitators set an estimated 70 houses on fire. This isn't a spontaneous atrocity. The story of Buddhist violence against Muslims has…

On Sunday, Boko Haram Islamist militants killed over 40 students at an agricultural college in Nigeria in an organized assault. The Western style of teaching at the college is the likely reason for the attack, but there’s one very important fact…

Turns out that recent history is actually old history when it comes to NSA surveillance of Americans. While, the program for tapping foreign-influenced opponents of the Vietnam War, MINARET, was declassified and discontinued in the 1970s, the…

Most people receiving the news about the Sudanese government cutting off Internet access across the country would be seriously troubled. Should governments be able to do this? In an increasingly free speech world, the answer is bound to be no. But…