Educational romanticism asks too much from students at the bottom of the intellectual pile, asks the wrong things from those in the middle, and asks too little from those at the top.

Discussion of what shapes the new governments and the new Middle East will take, what role secular democrats and Islamist movements will play, and what it all means for American policy and American interests.

In art, beauty has to be won, but the work becomes harder as the sheer noise of desecration--amplified now by the Internet--drowns out the quiet voices murmuring in the heart of things.

The West has cultivated an ethos of individualism, reason, tolerance, and an elaborate system in which every actor seeks to resolve conflict through words.

Rubin reviews Mike Tucker's Hell is Over, Voices of the Kurds after Saddam.

U.S. opposition to Russia's recent behavior should not rest on a desire to "punish" Russia but on the need to brace Moscow before its behavior becomes even more unacceptable.

An attempt to break out of the rut of contemporary environmental politics is more likely to receive serious consideration from the Right than from the Left.

The Suicide of Reason exposes radical Islam's threat to the Enlightenment.