Duke was wrong to lend its institutional support to this document, and would do well to think more carefully before taking an official position on policy matters in the future.
In accordance with the inexorable momentum of specialization in the sciences, experts will continue to learn more and more about less and less until they end up knowing everything about nothing.
The phenomenal popularity of the viral video about the Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony has once again called attention to the moral outrage of the abduction of children to be trained as soldiers.
Tocqueville’s always celebrated, often quoted and rarely read tome is in many ways just as much about aristocracy in Europe as it is about democracy in America.
Two mathematicians are sitting in a bar, arguing about what degree of mathematical literacy one could expect from the average person.
Old souls are especially prone to dreary confessions.
In his 1894 essay “True Americanism,” President Theodore Roosevelt argued that, though cosmopolitanism may philosophically be ideal, the age of its political viability would prove so remote and...
One major staple of former President Bush’s foreign policy was the notion that all human beings long for freedom, and that such longings are best achieved by—and instantiated in—democracy.
Last Wednesday marked the 22nd anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
The success of multiple recent books advocating for a kind of “new atheism” has been something of a phenomenon in American popular culture.
