Conjuring fear of Nazism and anti-Semitism, Jews recoil from the thought that Judaism might be a race, but medical geneticist Harry Ostrer insists the 'biological basis of Jewishness' cannot be ignored.    In his new book, “Legacy: A Genetic History of the Jewish People,” Harry Ostrer, a medical geneticist...

If you want to copy China because its authoritarian capitalism is better than our democratic capitalism, it seems pretty obvious that what you envy is the authoritarianism. H. G. Wells had a phrase for that.

German scholar Matthias Küntzel is the author of the...

President Obama's charge for NASA to tell Muslims how good they are at math is representative of the catch-22 facing liberalism, as the reality of hyper-mission creep undoes the dream of a nimble, focused, problem-solving government.

The instinct of some liberal voices to lay blame for the Arizona shootings on the right, before any facts were known, is unseemly and potentially more divisive that the spirited rhetoric that is their target.

When rites of passage disappear from public life, civilization does as well, and one result is young men running amok.

We cannot fully appreciate the psychic burden of ordering into harm's way men and women whom you see in front of you.