Since I occasionally review books for various websites, I was recently given the opportunity to list my top ten books of 2007. After a little thought, however, I had to decline. Not because I didn't read any books in 2007 -- on the contrary, I read far too many, as...

Acting on complaints from the public, Senator Charles Grassley, the top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, recently launched an investigation into alleged financial wrongdoing involving six high-profile televangelists, all of whom run "non-profit" organizations. The allegations involve governing boards that are not independent and which allow exorbitant salaries, housing...

There's been a lot of buzz about the Kindle, Amazon's new eBook reader, a device the size and weight of an ordinary paperback that can apparently store around 200 books at once; or if you prefer, a combination of novels, newspaper subscriptions, and blogs. Technophiles have been suggesting that the...

To the inconvenience of its residents, the lobby of my building -- an old Beaux Arts hotel in Baltimore -- was closed off to residents yesterday since it was being used, we were told, to shoot a scene for the upcoming movie, He's Just Not That Into You. Moving my...