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,...

What belongs in the hall of fame of unintended outcomes in the arts and sciences, when a truly wonderful accomplishment inadvertently contributed to some truly awful consequences?

The deepest questions of life are illuminated not by mechanistic and materialist explanations but through humane studies in the great philosophical tradition of the West.

A flourishing human life is not a life lived with an ageless body or untroubled soul, but rather a life lived in rhythmed time, mindful of time"s limits andappreciative of each season.

A critical look at Roger Clemens, Barry Bonds, the Mitchell Report, and the adulteration of American sports.

We need to understand more clearly thatour accomplishments and virtues have their source in the institutions designed by our Founding Fathers.

One year ago this evening Jim Wilson delivered his Boyer Lecture entitled "Two Nations." He described America as two nations to dramatize the contrast between our dominant culture—rich, powerful, and accomplished, the successful children of the Enlightenment—and our subculture, which he did not call the underclass but many now do,...