Jon Margolis

One evening earlier this month, Joe Miller was not allowed into a theater to see a movie. This movie was ''Henry and June,'' which is rated NC-17, meaning children under...

So we`re going to war, are we? Well, no we`re not. Maybe they are. But we aren`t. They are the people we pay to go to war for us these...

Ours is not a revolutionary society. So often has this been demonstrated that you`d think everyone would have figured it out by now. But some people never learn. Consider the...

Because it is in their interest, some office-holders, true believers and general know-it-alls are determined to convince people to deny the obvious, sometimes simply because it is obvious. ''Things are...

Because so many other indignities have been visited on them in the past, it should come as only a mild surprise and a minor irony that the latest insult to...

When a new idea is embraced so fervently that dissenting from it becomes almost subversive, two truths may be assumed. First, the idea transcends itself. Whatever its specific merits, it...

The world of the arts tends to be a gloomy sanctuary these days. Among the side effects of the recent (and silly) dispute over the National Endowment for the Arts...

Because he was both a banker and a scoundrel, Thomas Gresham would have felt at home in today`s America, and probably would have acknowledged that his discovery, or some variant...

If your old Aunt Tilly`s Social Security checks are late, your son wants to go to West Point, your daughter thinks she`s being mistreated by the state university and the...

Dreadful news! Either we stay polluted, or we`ll go broke. How do we know this? Because it says so right in the newspapers. And how do the newspapers know it?...