Despite stunning advances in neuroscience and bold claims of revelations from new brain-scan technologies, our knowledge about the brain’s role in human behavior is still primitive.
Political scientists and liberal reformers want to remove highly charged moral issues to the sidelines, but what is the purpose of politics if not to address fundamental moral questions?
A new era of globlization dawned in December 2001, with the West passing the torch to China and India.
How do our own pasts connect with our larger cultural heritage? Here are 12 ways to respond to that question.
Thomas Jefferson was an enigma to everyone he met. A century and a half after his death, one writer strives to understand, if not the man himself, then at least the world as it knew him.
Competition seems to be hard-wired into humans, but is that such a bad thing? A look at where competing has gotten us.
Competition can produce excellence, but there are many other factors at play.
Americans are obsessed with competition, but they forget that cooperation and collective effort are the foundation of freedom.
In our globalized economy, competitors can suddenly appear out of nowhere—if we can see them at all. The new environment spells trouble for some people, opportunity for others.
As Americans embraced the future after World War II, they entertained themselves with cinematic visions of mean streets and sordid pasts. The tale of film noir’s rise and fall has a few twists of its own.