Author: Mark Ward

  • July 7, 2010
    JRR Tolkien, author of the Lord of the Rings, once commented that stories like his, at their best, serve as…

  • July 6, 2010
    How did the word “mercenary” get a metaphorical sense and a literal one? It started in classical Latin, says the…

  • July 2, 2010
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  • July 1, 2010
    Find the Russian spy on this page. I am using invisible e-ink to write half of this blog post.

  • July 1, 2010
    The Supreme Court recently voted 5–4 to keep a Christian campus group at Hastings College of the Law in San…

  • June 29, 2010
    From an advice column at CNN.com: I have been dating my boyfriend for about three months. We get along great…