Time travel always seemed to me a silly idea — at least as it’s portrayed in movies and on TV. Sure, it’s fun to ponder whether a guy can be his own grandpa. But time-travel movies always fall apart ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

First you learn to crawl, then you learn to walk, then you learn to run (then you learn to drive five miles to the place where you like to walk or run). The same process applies to learning about ...

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW was once so angry with a subeditor that he complained to the newspaper. “I ask you, sir,” Shaw wrote, “to put this man out.” The cause of his fury? The editor had insisted on ...

Not long ago a pained letter came from a high school senior in a Midwestern state. At her earnest request, she remains nameless and stateless. She wrote: "In an assigned editorial about the war in ...

For some, splitting an infinitive is akin to splitting the atom. Graham Hopkins wonders why…. A split infinitive is not a grammatical error. Neither is it as widely ...

Clare Leonard '08.5 may indeed be the only person under the age of 50 who enjoys enforces the split-infinitives "rule," but she writes, in her letter ("Poor writing can be found just about anywhere," ...