President Obama would have done better to decline the Nobel Peace Prize he was awarded. The Nobel Committee should have worried that it was hanging an albatross around his neck.

As aesthetic values lose their importance to the European public, the old European sense that sacred things are not for sale has been replaced by the American attitude toward branding the downtown urban space.

As moral questions intensify, the answers offered by the case that struck down Canada's abortion laws will look more and more inadequate, shallow, short-sighted and obsolete.

How do we reconcile the spiritual and moral side of life with theories of evolutionary psychology?

Joseph Brodsky, the Nobel Prize-winning poet, considered the advocacy of poetry as synonymous with the advocacy of human uniqueness.

A new book explores the tragic yet mysterioushostile takeover of a school in one of Russia's Caucasus provinces.

The search for better anti-addiction medications is worthy, but we have to be realistic. The passive model of drug treatment for addiction is a pipe dream.