Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command.
Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works.
The two defining issues of this century are both universal but felt locally: the global water crisis and the resources boom.
Jay-Z and Kanye West are to authentic rap culture what diseased rates were to 14th century Europeans
Green technologies - going green - is bigger than the Internet. It could be the biggest economic opportunity of the 21st century.
Our twenty-first century economy may focus on agriculture, not information.
In terms of representation, television is reflecting an era that has passed. It's the wrong time; it's the wrong period. In all sorts of television, it doesn't feel like the 21st century.
Every time in this century we've lowered the tax rates across the board, on employment, on saving, investment and risk-taking in this economy, revenues went up, not down.
Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time.
Back in the mid-18th century, in 1745-1747, Ossetia was the first to become part of the Russian Empire. At that time, it was a united entity; North and South Ossetia were one state.
If you were an optimistic teen, then you'll be an optimist at 80. People's reactions to bad events are highly stable over a half century or more.
Solar power, wind power, the way forward is to collaborate with nature - it's the only way we are going to get to the other end of the 21st century.
My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries.
Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.
Over the centuries, monumental upheavals in science have emerged time and again from following the leads set out by mathematics.
It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered, from observations science had made, that many features of the biological world could be ascribed to the elegant principle of natural selection.
We'd love to do Pirates for the 21st century. People have also asked about Colonization, and a few others.
I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all.
I progressed through so many different styles of music through my teen years, both as a player and a vocalist, particularly the jazz and pop of the early 20th Century.
Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what Einstein is to physics.
All old music was modern once, and much more of the music of yesterday already sounds more old-fashioned than works which were written three centuries ago.
