Ayaan Hirsi Ali's memoir Infidel tells the story of her emancipation.

"They do that because they were born that way."

If you say that about homosexuals, you are tolerant and realistic. If you say it about blacks, you are racist (unless you're black yourself). If you say it about women, you may or may not be sexist, depending on who is manning...

On May 3, James Q. Wilson gave the ninth of the Institute"s 1998–1999 Bradley Lectures.

Men and women differ, and a strong culture must be designed and maintained that will keep them together in achieving what most want and what most, when they get it, cherish. Their own child.

But we need a user’s manual for capitalism — one that somehow makes frighteningly evident the risks inherent in a lack of boundaries and that introduces an element of humility to the abilities we have to control and use information.

President Obama entered the White House determined to renew diplomacy with Iran. During his campaign, he said he would meet the leaders of Iran "without preconditions.”

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...

The Enlightenment has traditionally been identified with eighteenth-century France. To also focus upon Britain and America is to redefine the concept of “enlightenment” by recalling the distinctive ideas that helped shape the very different course of history in those countries--ideas that still resonate today. Gertrude Himmelfarb will discuss the ideas...