For a brief moment after the inappropriate interjection of Rep. Joe Wilson, it looked as if cooler heads might prevail.

Facebook Inc. took a momentous action last week. And I don’t mean its announced intention to sell shares for $28 to $35 in an initial public offering later this month.

This bookprobes the innermost religious conviction of Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and others who helped the American eagle take flight.

In his new encyclical, the Pope champions reason at a time when philosophers have lost confidence in it.

Whoever thought it would come to this? Most secular philosophers today, proudly calling themselves postmodernist, have given up on the Enlightenment and reason in favor of an easygoing moral relativism....

The late New York Times columnist Bill Safire was known for channeling the “Great Mentioner,” the unseen oracle who launched political careers into the stratosphere simply by mentioning a person’s name. Today, a more malevolent oracle is at work in Washington — call him the “Great Whisperer” — seeking to...

Not all professors are radicals and not all students are timewasters.Many still seek knowledge, if not wisdom, but gap between the ideal and the reality has seemingly never been greater.