When you read Umberto Eco's Foucault’s Pendulum and saw the allusions to Francis Bacon's New Atlantis, did you begin to suspect a Plan. Did you think that James was obviously sending you on a literary journey from one stepping stone to the next on the way to a predetermined destination? That would be a perfectly reasonable supposition...but it's completely incorrect. These works were chosen completely independently from each other by people who didn't even know of the other's existence, let alone the other's choice of book. Does this information bother you? Should it? Why? These are the sorts of questions one begins to ask oneself when you engage in a rabbit hole as large and as all consuming as Foucault's Pendulum—a rabbit hole that…
McMahon continued her talk about a return to greatness for U.S. colleges and universities on 'Just the News, No Noise' just hours after she made public a stinging open letter to high education leaders on the issue.
A plane with 147 Venezuelans landed on Monday in the South American country amid criticism over the deaths of deportees housed in a collapsed building during June’s quakes.
USA Today MLB columnist Bob Nightengale joins "The Hill on NewsNation" to discuss the looming MLB lockout following the Los Angeles Dodgers acquiring Tarik Skubal in a trade with the Detroit Tigers. "The Hill on NewsNation" combines the power of two trusted news sources to define today's most-pressing issues, and question Washington's power brokers on what matters most to the people they serve and what matters most to Americans.
Miller is under fire after being accused of abusing his ex-wife and their 2-year-old child, with his former father-in-law Sen. Bernie Moreno speaking out against him. Miller denies the allegations.
