The Nobel Peace Prize is the world’s most prestigious award, as Jay Nordlinger argues in this erudite and insightful history. He has written not only the go-to reference book for the prize and its laureates but also an important philosophical reflection on the nature of “peace” in modern times.

The award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo should remind the world the world that Liu is one Chinese of many who are fighting for, indeed risking their lives for, democratic change in China.

In awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to the accomplishment-free Mr. Obama, the Norwegian parliamentarians who voted were not so much recognizing the young president so much as they were honoring themselves and their own timid foreign-policy creed.

These demonstrations may not topple the regime, but they serve as a reminder of the will of the Iranian people to resist dictatorship.

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.

Did President Obama deserve the prize? If it is to recognize a record of accomplishment, then he does not.

To redeem himself from the failures of his first year of foreign policy, President Obama needs to articulate an effective policy against our terrorist enemies, broaden our attention to Iraq, and recommit to the spread of freedom abroad.

The Norwegian model will create a two-tier system of corporate leadership: men will be chosen because of their value to the company, women simply because they are women.