Julia Keller

Looming behind the news of every scientific breakthrough is another, subtler question: What do we do with the knowledge? Every revelation forces a reckoning: How will it change our conception...

If Chicago were a person, this time of year would definitely constitute a bad hair day. No, it's worse than that: This time of year would constitute a frumpy-bathrobe, droopy-sweatpants,...

Earlier this week, ABC aired the 1997 movie "Liar Liar," in which Jim Carrey plays a lawyer afflicted with a peculiar malady: For one day, he can speak only the...

Being part of a family is like house arrest: There's no escape. Sometimes you don't want to get away -- some families, that is, are perfectly wonderful -- but it...

As mixed marriages go, the union of Laura and George W. Bush appears to be successful. Apparently they have managed to overcome the perils and pitfalls of their situation, rising...

Folksinger John Gorka has a slyly wonderful line about New Jersey: "It's like Ohio -- only more so." That's how some people have come to think of e-mail: It's like...

Ah, the holiday dilemmas of a columnist. To commemorate this hallowed interim between Christmas and New Year's, I fully intended to offer a brief meditation on the passing of one...

Each time I see the TV ad for "Cast Away," the film starting Friday in which Tom Hanks' character is stranded on a deserted island, I have the same reaction:...

Warm, soft wood surrounds you on three sides, wood that looks so much like butterscotch that you're tempted to take a lick. You feel enclosed, enfolded and ever so snug...

I gripped both armrests with the kind of iron ferocity that, had it been an airline seat, would have indicated a nosedive from 30,000 feet. My spine was erect. Jaw...