On a grassy hillside just east of downtown Los Angeles, a few dozen mourners gathered last week to pay respects to 1,865 people whose names they did not know — men, women and children whose ...

String theory began over 50 years ago as a way to understand the strong nuclear force. Since then, it’s grown to become a theory of everything, capable of explaining the nature of every particle ...

After writing the impending “requiem” of Sts. Cyril and Methodius Seminary in Orchard Lake, Michigan, the graduate school of my defunct undergraduate alma mater, St. Mary’s College ...

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