Framing the contours of a debate goes a long way toward winning it. Part of such framing involves efforts to make derogatory labels stick t...

Falling oil prices and economic sanctions in 2014 put the pressure on the Russian economy and its currency. The overall question may have b...

“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Lord Acton’s timeless statement is applicable to legal and illegal power a...

Is religion so pliable that it can be contorted against itself “with a straight face?” That is to say, does the human mind lack the machine...

A film that centers on the U.S. Senate’s role in confirming executive nominations made by the president, Advise and Consent (1962) is argua...

In just four years, Wall Street got away with weakening a part of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law, which became law in 2010 to protect...

Plato claims that a psyche well-ordered by reason is just. To the extent that the passions, such as anger and the urge to dominate, are inf...

In Wealth of Nations , Adam Smith argues that the aggregation of the preferences of consumers and producers for a given good is in the publ...

With China and the U.S. coming to an agreement in 2014 on limiting their respective greenhouse-gas emissions, the Peru talks suddenly gaine...

By the end of November 2014, the price of oil had declined about 40 percent since its peak back in the previous June. [1] Expanding Americ...

Monsignor , a film made in 1982—in the midst of a very pro-business administration in Washington, D.C.—depicts a Vatican steeped in matters...

A few months after residents in the Scottish region of the E.U. state of Britain voted not to secede from the state by a margin of 55 to 45...

To be viable, a representative democracy needs a virtuous and educated citizenry. Thomas Jefferson and John Adams agreed on this point in t...

When a blatant conflict of interest is ensconced in a regulatory system, the public can expect to be insufficiently protected from being ha...

In Heaven Is For Real (2014), a film based on Todd Burpo’s best-selling non-fiction book of the same title, the evangelical Christian mini...