Publications

The moral meaning of capitalism has vexed us for centuries, and the age of biotechnology has only added to the…

From the earliest records of human civilization until the dawn of the 20th century, and in widely separated cultures throughout the world, the history of honor was inseparable from the history of mankind. Today, it is still essential to an understanding of the Islamic cultures of the Middle East and the sense of grievance they often foster against the West, and especially the United States. But in the West itself, honor has been disregarded or actively despised for three quarters of a century at least.

On April 20, in the Royal Castle in Warsaw, the Polish Minister of Culture and National Heritage, Kazimierz Ujazdowski, presented…

The Poem That Changed AmericaEdited by Jason ShinderFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 288 pages, $30   Of Robert Browning’s notoriously incomprehensible…

A year ago, the world stopped, quite literally, to honor a Polish priest and bishop who had touched hearts, minds,…

President Hu will visit President Bush at the White House this week. The two leaders will talk about trade and…

The government of Slovakia fell in early February, when the governing coalition imploded after a fierce parliamentary debate over a…

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. HarperCollins, 256…

Faith, Politics & Progressives: A Conversation with John Podesta Tuesday, April 26, 2005 10:00 a.m.-noon Pew Research Center Washington, DC…

The CBS news magazine 60 Minutes prides itself on asking the hard questions that other television news vehicles are too…

Dr. Grace Davie, chair in the Sociology of Religion at the University of Exeter, spoke at the December 2005 Faith Angle Forum on the subject of current perspectives on modern secularism in Europe and how Europeans view American religion.

A thought exercise: It’s 1964, and Congress is debating the Civil Rights Act. For years, the Catholic bishops of the…