By Howard Fischer (Capitol Media Services) PHOENIX – Jan Brewer verbally stumbled, went silent and mangled her grammar during last week’s televised debate. The result of her performance, a new statewide survey indicates, is that she is even more popular. Pollster Scott Rasmussen found 60 percent of the 500 likely Arizona voters questioned in the [...]

By Jessica Sheppard (The Guardian UK) Girls think they are cleverer, more successful and harder working than boys from as young as four, a study has found. Boys come round to this view by the age of seven or eight and assume that girls will outperform them at school and behave better in lessons, research [...]

By Heather Mac Donald (City Journal) The campus rape industry’s central tenet is that one-quarter of all college girls will be raped or be the targets of attempted rape by the end of their college years (completed rapes outnumbering attempted rapes by a ratio of about three to two). The girls’ assailants are not terrifying [...]

On, ‘Bloomsday’, June 16th, the day that the events in James Joyce’s book ‘Ulysses’ takes place, (a book that was once banned in the United States for being deemed ‘obscene’), Apple users will be able to read a censored version of it on their iPads.

On, ‘Bloomsday’, June 16th, the day that the events in James Joyce’s book ‘Ulysses’ takes place, (a book that was once banned in the United States for being deemed ‘obscene’), Apple users will be able to read a censored version of it on their iPads.

By Megan Murphy (FT) Having more women in the boardroom can hurt the financial performance of well-governed companies, according to research that is likely to be seized upon by opponents of diversity initiatives. The study, published this week in the Journal of Financial Economics, appears to contradict research into the effect of female directors in [...]