Joseph Reisert’s column about the humanities (“A world without humanities,” May 30) raises two big questions and then proposes a solution that sounds reasonable and practical, but it is neither. First, he surveys the sciences and the humanities, and he mentions the notion of progress. He cites steady progress in natural science; in social science, […]

Every day, we hear more evidence that changes in the global climate are real and threatening: New examples of extreme weather, the alarming rate of species extinction, and the melting of the West Arctic Ice Sheet that could result in a sea level rise of 12 feet by 2100. Some changes feel more immediate and […]

In Bruce Poliquin’s Maine Compass, “Second Amendment right to keep, bear arms inviolate, not open to interpretation” (June 3), he writes that the Second Amendment doesn’t need to be interpreted. I’m not so sure. Words don’t interpret themselves. Does “arms’ include sawed-off shotguns? Bazookas? Do I have the right to carry a weapon on an […]