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A bizarre galaxy spotted in the early days of the universe could rewrite how supermassive black holes are formed. Scientists have long wondered how supermassive black holes — the enormous, mysterious phenomena at the center of galaxies including our Milky Way — came into existence. A new observation of Galaxy UHZ-1, collected by NASA using its powerful new James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory, suggests an unusual origin. Per the agency, it could show that the supermassive black hole there was born directly from clouds of primordial gas. If confirmed, it would show, for the first time,...

The GOP brand stands in profound disrepair because the party oligarchy does virtually nothing to defend it. James Dobson, Ron Paul, Lincoln Chafee, Walter B. Jones, John McCain and Rudy Giuliani all have one thing in common beyond a sometimes tenuous relationship to the GOP. Each individual knows he can flaunt the party at will on issues that party voters care about. Every one of the individuals listed above has taken at least one, if not several, stands that GOP loyalists are totally repulsed by. Virtually nothing has been done to castigate these people for their disrespect for core party...

E-mail Author Author Archive Send to a Friend <% printurl = Request.ServerVariables("URL")%> Print Version April 28, 2004, 8:50 a.m. Huntington's WarningWho are we? By Rich Lowry “When E. F. Hutton talks," the famous TV ads for the financial firm once declared, "people listen." No one is going to make TV ads on his behalf, but the same deserves to be said of Harvard scholar Samuel Huntington, the most important political scientist in America. His last book, The Clash of Civilizations, forecast the civilizational tensions that became obvious to everyone in the post-9/11 world. When Huntington writes, people listen —...

SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON is the author of some of the most important works of political science of this generation, ranging from Political Order in Changing Societies (1969) to The Clash of Civilizations (1998). His latest book, Who Are We?, is without question his most personal. Huntington has written this book not just as a scholar but as a patriot at a time when, according to Huntington, the nation is confronting an "identity crisis." The very unity and cohesiveness of the country are under siege, and the dominant trend--only "temporarily obscured" by Americans' response to the attacks of September 11--is toward...

O, My America From the May 3, 2004 issue: The clash of the Huntingtons. by James W. Ceaser 05/03/2004, Volume 009, Issue 32 Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity by Samuel P. Huntington Simon & Schuster, 448 pp., $27 SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON is the author of some of the most important works of political science of this generation, ranging from Political Order in Changing Societies (1969) to The Clash of Civilizations (1998). His latest book, Who Are We?, is without question his most personal. Huntington has written this book not just as a scholar but as a...

THE US professor who first proclaimed the global "clash of civilisations" has ignited a new firestorm with his claim that Mexican immigration is splitting the US in two. Samuel Huntington argues in a new book that Americans are acquiescing in "their eventual transformation into two peoples with two cultures (Anglo and Hispanic) and two languages (English and Spanish)". "As their numbers increase, Mexican Americans feel increasingly comfortable with their own culture and often contemptuous of American culture," he writes. The stark warning from the 76-year-old chairman of the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies coincides with a US Census...

A circuit court judge today denied a last-ditch effort by the parents of a disabled woman to reinsert a feeding tube that was disconnected by her husband. Supporters of Bob and Mary Schindler said the writ of mandamus would direct Gov. Jeb Bush to intervene in the case of Terri Schiavo. Leon County Circuit Court Judge Jonathan Sjostrom quickly rejected the writ. Randall Terry, the anti-abortion activist who has taken up the Schindlers' cause, said the legal move was made by the Schindler's attorneys in hopes it would give Bush legal standing to intervene. The governor has been sympathetic to...