A man is found dead in a house that is being relocated, and Flack's sister is back in the seventh episode of 'New York'. Major spoilers inside!

By way of Fran O'Rourke (School of Philosophy, University College, Dublin):A conference to honour Alasdair MacIntyre on his 80th birthday will take place at University College Dublin, 6-8 March 2009. Theme of the conference will be "What happened in and

Eyewitness News reporter Kim Carapucci has more.Valdosta State University considers itself a pretty liberal school.VSU President Patrick Schloss: "We believe strongly in free speech and open access." But over the past year, it's been accused of violating students' rights to

Chicago Tribune Students and professors at the University of Illinois rallied for Barack Obama on the Urbana-Champaign campus Thursday - holding signs, passing out fliers and registering people to vote - to probe an increasingly controversial question as the November

Associated Press Claiming their rights to support political candidates are under assault, some University of Illinois faculty and students held a rally for Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama on campus to make their stand clear.The rally Thursday was staged after

For what seemed like a generation, the late Carl Sagan was the voice of science on public television. With an exuberant confidence in the empirical method, he showed viewers of the edifying PBS (...)

When my mother, Patricia McGowan, died in late June, we chose the cheapest coffin for her burial. The funeral director brought the glossy album of possibilities for us to leaf through and without (...)

T he figurative "exile" of religious believers-their status as unsettled pilgrims in a hostile world-was a literal condition for many Catholics in nineteenth-century Protestant (...)

Thirty-five years after Roe v. Wade, many Catholics wonder why the country still does not protect the life of every unborn person. The case against abortion seems compelling, so why does it often (...)

How to undo thirty years of bad economic policy

In his brief introduction to this valuable and entertaining primer, James Wood proposes to explore the following central questions about the art of fiction: "Is realism real? How do we (...)

Today's young adults may be a mystery to many religious leaders, but one thing about them is clear: Compared with young adults of the preceding generation, fewer go to church. Thirty-one percent (...)

What went wrong, and why is it so hard to fix?

The main character in Nixonland is not Nixon. Its protagonist, in fact, has no name-but lives on every page. It is the voter who, in 1964, pulled the lever for the Democrat for president because (...)

The McCain-Palin campaign says it's for change, and it certainly delivered change with its abrupt abandonment of the long-standing conservative view of teen pregnancy. For decades, religious (...)

HOW PROLIFE IS McCAIN?In his letter to the editor ("Voting Against Obama," September 12), David R. Carlin writes as if the current presidential election were a referendum on the (...)

What voting is--and isn't

Marketing has become the lifeblood of American culture-witness this election season's theatrics, from photo-ops at Middle American diners, to balloon-saturated and laser-laced conventions, to the (...)

The Southern Illinoisan sports staff discusses conference preps football.

There is no intentional walk in football, so North Dakota State did the next best thing against Larry Warner Saturday.