Let’s play "Jeopardy." Round One: Science Literacy. Category: Evolution. For $500: Which is the largest demographic group to reject Darwin’s theory of evolution?”

According to Chris Mooney’s best selling new book, The Republican Brain, a follow up to his 2007 polemic The Republican War on Science, the answer is easy:...

President Obama on Friday announced what he termed an “accommodation” of religious employers: the mandate to provide abortifacient drugs, sterilization and contraception would remain in place — but insurers will be required to provide them for “free.” The decision has been called everything from a compromise to capitulation — but in truth the president didn’t retreat one inch.

The 400th anniversary of the King James Bible has received only muted celebrations in the English-speaking world.

The late Norman Mailer transformed himself into one of the best English stylists of the later twentieth century and wrote several books that will last.

A study by AEI research fellow Veronique de Rugy.

There seems to be a real panic out there in Secular Land. Some endow the "Christian Right" with dreadful mythical intent to destroy the Bill of Rights.

The proof is in the pudding: The times are better than they used to be. The middle class is flourishing and optimistic.

All children in a free nation have a moral claim to attend schools that will help them discover and develop their gifts. And while difficult choices must always be made, we should be wary of shaping schools in ways that explicitly favor some of our children while shortchanging others.