Regarding Dennis D. Morgan’s letter, “Old days were better in many ways” (April 30): Mr. Morgan believes that global warming is a myth, yet offers us no evidence to support this. Global warming may be ...

A sentence must never be interpreted out of context, as any scholar knows. It is pointless, furthermore, to suggest that separate sentences are true out of a context of linguistic and nonlinguistic ...

I was born into a faith that demanded very little from me. There are no onerous obligations in the Druze faith. Only the religious are expected to dress differently and pray regularly, the rest of us ...

Let’s take a break from politics, along with all the discomforting news of the world that makes us feel helpless. I could suggest a Wordle competition. But no. Rather, for the sake of relaxation, ...

Some of my favorite books are dystopian novels — stories of future worlds that see themselves as utopian, but are in fact nightmarish perversions of society. Dystopias are often characterized by ...

Truth has carried a lot of weight for a long time. In the 1940s and 1950s on radio and television, a game show called “Truth or Consequences” featured panelists whose task was to determine which one ...

When the meaning of life is brought up, the usual attitude towards it is mystification. Few people in modern times take the meaning of life for granted. They assume that it is the same as the mystery ...

Jack Telfer’s editorial last Sunday (“Reporting the story, honestly and ethically”) rightly praised the quality of local news reporting by the Midland Daily News staff. Jack also raised an appropriate ...