Michael Seringhaus
Michael Seringhaus
Recent Stories
With great power and wealth come … ‘hot girls’?
In the ongoing battle between Elihu Yale and John Harvard, this much is clear: Being an Eli still beats being a John.
Remembering a friend, William F. Buckley Jr.
I first met Bill Buckley five years ago, after responding to an advertisement he published in the News. The ad was small, buried in the leaves of the campus daily. Beneath a soaring sea-bird were written the words, “Do you like to sail?”
The Bachelor’s Brad exposes real reality love
At its core, The Bachelor is implicitly a contract. We the public anoint one man, and give him a stable of beauties from which to select his mate. In return, we demand to be entertained: he shall slowly pare the field down to one, and there shall be True Love. Nothing shall interfere with this hallowed process, and in no event shall he be so ungrateful and so arrogant as to look beyond his women.
US News rankings are as inert as the Constitution
We can all stop scrutinizing. No matter what happens at the actual schools, it’s very unlikely that the substantive rankings will ever meaningfully change. Why? Because the US News rankings are very much like the Constitution and the Uniform Commercial Code. And anyone who saw that coming just earned my respect and sympathy in roughly equal measure.
Degeneres’ celebrity emotions harm pet adoption
The fact is, my friends have spotted my willingness to fuel biweekly opinion pieces with tabloid fodder and now interpret this as an open invitation to send me the latest Hollywood gossip as column ideas. Some of these are dead ends — there’s only so much to be said about Britney’s deteriorating physique — but once in a while these stories merit a closer look. Just such a thing happened last week, when daytime television host Ellen Degeneres erupted in tears on air, bemoaning the plight
Borough burglar has Real Ultimate Power
News flash: Real Ultimate Power has been unleashed on Staten Island. Yes, the Forgotten Borough has been terrorized by a stealthy burglar dressed like a ninja.
Fewer guns would help stop future tragedies
The fact that a student with a demonstrated history of harassment, depression, extreme antisocial behavior and unspeakably disturbed writings nonetheless aced a Virginia background check should speak for itself. To those who champion current gun laws, we need no further rebuttal.
Diploma mills deserve their own rankings
More and more Americans are buying credentials online, but faced with a staggering array of phony schools, how is the aspiring charlatan to choose?
Show’s vision of justice seems, well, perverted
Do Perverted Justice decoys entice men to type things they otherwise would not? It’s impossible to know for certain — but provided it fuels more episodes, Dateline doesn’t seem to mind.
Real scientists can spice up design theory
In the face of it all, scientists stubbornly cling to reason: We reject creationism as pseudoscience, and in so doing miss out on countless facile rationalizations and opportunities for intellectual languor. God is not happy.