When the World Economic Summit convened today in Davos -- an Alpine resort nestled in the cozy and romantic confines of Switzerland's Sertig Valley -- reporters such as the Wall Street Journal's Marc Champion pronounced it "more wracked with self-doubt" that at any time in its 38-year history.

Among the...

After grousing about some minor service gaffe in a late 1970s letter to his local power provider, the accomplished physicist and spirited bongo drummer Richard Feynman arrived at a seemingly gracious conclusion in which he praised "the consistently fine quality of your electricity."

When Feynman, who died in 1988, began...

I suppose that those of us who troll this site regularly are used to having President Bush pull the wool over our eyes.

But in my over 20 years in journalism -- including a stint as an editorial writer and book editor that blessed me with the trade's brassiest...