If you are reading this article on a printed copy of the Guardian, what you have in your hand will, just 15 years from now, look as archaic as a Western Union telegram does today. In less than 50 years, according to Clay Shirky, it won't exist at all. The reason, he says, is very simple, and very obvious: if you are 25 or younger, you're probably...
“Seigniorage” [pronounced seen´ yer idg] is “any profits or charges arising from the minting of gold and silver coins from bullion, usually the difference between face...
Yesterday brought the news that Christopher Hitchens has cancer. Of course, the Christian response to that news is prayer for Hitchens’ recovery and conversion, just as it would be to the news of anyone’s serious illness. But I wanted to highlight some of the gushing tributes to Hitchens that continue to pour...
Somewhere there's an America that's full of neighborhoods where black and white kids play softball together, where biracial families e-mail photos online and where Asians and blacks dance in the same nightclub....
