Chef Anthony Bourdain gets to travel the globe and delight his senses in foreign cuisine. Lawyers get to geek out too, especially when travelling beyond familiar Western confines. …

Recently the Vatican received a 1,200 page dossier outing nearly 40 priests in Italy who had connections with a male escort. The escort said he wanted to expose the hypocrisy. The cardinal who forwarded the dossier said he wanted repentance for the “harm” done. Let’s for a moment though imagine…

For a few hours in Hong Kong, I felt like an eight-year old child all over again. A law school friend had introduced me to her family there and the patriarch, a seventy-year old doctor, drove me around the city on the second day of the Chinese New Year. “Here,”…

In our house growing up I shared a bathroom with three brothers. We also had the responsibility of cleaning it, which meant it was usually disgusting. In this way my parents unwittingly prepared us for collegiate lives in our fraternities, but that is a story for another day. To wake…

To paraphrase David Bellos, in reading or watching historical works, we’re struck not just by what was meant to be conveyed, but what was so obvious at the time that it didn’t need to be said at all. I was reminded of this recently while watching Back to the Future…

I was a good liberal and for some time, liberals dumped a lot of their umbrage on Walmart. Such dumping has often been deserved with stories like this and this and due to the company’s repeated fights against labor unions. The good liberals I knew never shopped there and, instead…

Porn. Few words in our lexicon have grown so much in usage over recent years. I first knew of its expanded use in Ruin Porn. And then some realtor friends started talking about their perfectly staged listing as Real Estate Porn. Myself? …