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…