Wilfred M. McClay will deliver the April Bradley Lecture.

“Rational control” is the subjection of society to reason as opposed to superstition, prejudice, or tradition, with the aim of getting us to behave better. Alexis de Tocqueville says this idea or practice began with the French monarchy; a more recent example is Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and...

Well, we have finally had a Republican presidential debate on foreign policy, and there were some surprises from the candidates.

Leon Kass of AEI and University of Chicago delivered the February Bradley Lecture.

In our new world of biotechnology, gathering powers to intervene in human bodies and minds raise profound challenges to the meaning of our humanity. Crucial to meeting those challenges is a robust notion of human dignity—the special...

In this riveting and alarming essay, Cheney, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, exposes the blatant politicization of America's universities and schools.

Richard Rodriguez is an editor at the Pacific News Service in San Francisco and is a contributing editor for Harper’s Magazine, U.S. News and World Report, and the Sunday "Opinion" section of the Los Angeles Times. He appears regularly as an essayist on the Newshour with Jim Lehrer, and...

Conventional arguments for and against immigration are of little help in developing policy in an era of globalization and international terrorism. Tamar Jacoby draws on her experience as a journalist to illustrate problems with current policy by examining vignettes from the border, immigrant communities, and the economic sectors that increasingly...

Adisdain for objective truth and principles has created a moral and intellectual crisis that threatens the foundation of our legal, political, and social order.