Japanese like to think their aesthetic sensibility is shaped in no small part by the cherry blossom: its vibrant beauty, celebrated in art and literature for centuries, is all too quickly blown away by the wind and rain. People ...

Architecture clearly illustrates the social, environmental, economic, and aesthetic costs of ignoring beauty. We are being torn out of ourselves by the loud gestures of people who want to seize our attention but give nothing in return.

The environmental and aesthetic virtues of organic agriculture have been overblown.

No environmental problem is more important than that posed by the degradation of our cities, and we must reflect on the factors that might prevent or reverse the decay that we are witnessing. In urban planning, civic leaders should think in terms of fostering beauty through the use of aesthetic constraints.

Hoover Institution research fellow Mary Eberstadt discussed her latest work, The Loser Letters: A Comic Tale of Life, Death, and Atheism (Ignatius Press, 2010).

From teenage boys with bleached blond hair to toilet brushes in designer cases, conscious style is spreading to places we never expected. Aesthetics--the look and feel of people, places, and things--is becoming an increasingly important source of economic and cultural value. In her new book, Virginia Postrel examines the...

Denis Dutton is the founder and editor of the hugely popular website Arts & Letters Daily, named by the Guardian as the best website in the world. He also founded and edits the journal Philosophy and Literature and is a professor of philosophy of art at the University of Canterbury,...

America loves entrepreneurs--for good reason: they spark our imagination and remind us of the potential in each of us.