The deepest questions of life are illuminated not by mechanistic and materialist explanations but through humane studies in the great philosophical tradition of the West.

Aside from the indictment of Representative William Jefferson, the House has performed well of late under Speaker Nancy Pelosi's leadership.

There is a right way and a wrong way to move toward justice, and this was the wrong way.

Before anyone gets too intoxicated with visions of "Europe" stretching from Dublin to the Mongolian steppe, it's worth considering the cold, hard calculus of post-Soviet politics. A meeting here late last month of Belarussian democratic activists hoping to topple their dictatorial president, Alexander Lukashenko, shows just how tortuous the road from authoritarian backwater to Jeffersonian republic can be -- with or without Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko and his fellow reformer, Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili, cheering from the sidelines.

Authors from the United States and the United Kingdom deconstruct the controversies of agriculturalbiotechnology and offer solutions to the current impasse.

It has been reported that the Obama campaign this year, as in 2008, has disabled or chosen not to use AVS in screening contributions made by credit card. That doesn't sound very important. But it's evidence of a modus operandi that strikes me as thuggish.

For Barack Obama’s supporters on the left, to say his policy choices have been a disappointment would be an understatement. Explaining how this came about is Jack Goldsmith’s provocative new book.