philosophy

The poet Robert Frost once said that a liberal is someone too broad-minded to take his own side in a fight. What would he say about those on the right...

RANDOLPH — Students at Gail N. Chapman Elementary School welcomed the new year with a mission of kindness, setting an ambitious goal to complete 3,000...

In recent weeks, Congress has stripped a senator of his committee chairmanship pending a bribery investigation, expelled a House member for egregious ...

The public-health officials are getting around to admitting the fallibility of public-health officials. The former head of the National Institutes of ...

I love this time of year for plenty of reasons, most of which have to do with Yuletide tunes and brightly-lit neighborhoods and Christmas programs kid...

OLEAN — Southern Tier Catholic School was graced with a special visit Wednesday as Saint Nicholas, the beloved figure of generosity and compassion, ma...

Military history offers no shortage of examples in which imprecise thinking and terminology contributed to failure at some level; as well cases of cle...

BRADFORD, Pa. — Ty Bowen is a non-traditional student at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford working toward a teaching degree, but he’s already t...

ALBANY (TNS) — A commission studying graduation requirements made recommendations today about changing and expanding how students can earn high school...

The cataract of anti-Israel sentiment on college campuses has been shocking, but it shouldn’t be surprising. It is the poisoned fruit of teaching a ge...

Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee offered U.S. Supreme Court justices an opportunity to salvage their standing with the American people on W...

ALFRED — Alfred State College will now offer a Bachelor of Business Administration in marketing, and students can enroll in the program starting this ...

ALLEGANY — The Democrats Cultural and Societal Destruction of America is the topic of Monday night’s panel discussion at the Right Thinkers meeting at...

ALLEGANY — Allegheny Valley Project is back at Canticle Farm to continue its annual research into the history of the Allegheny River Valley. The villa...

Thursday, June 29, 2023, was a very good day for the Supreme Court and the U.S. Constitution. On that day the high court struck down “affirmative acti...

The Supreme Court just acted to get rid of decades-long practices at colleges and universities that have been an illegal, unconstitutional, unprincipl...

The Supreme Court has spoken, invalidating racial preferences in college admissions as was widely anticipated. The six-justice conservative majority d...

This Juneteenth was the 10th anniversary of the unveiling of Frederick Douglass’s bronze statue in the U.S. Capitol. As we reflect on his well-earned ...