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In the summer of 1943, the British Royal Air Force (with support from the Eighth Army Air Force of the United States) flew a series of raids on Hamburg,...

I’m a new man. I’ve just slept through the night for the first time in weeks because my newborn son has just slept through the night for the first...

Conservatives face a daunting challenge today. On the most pressing moral issues confronting the country—many of them having to do with aspects of biotechnological research—the public is deeply divided,...

Nothing is more human than discontent with the human condition. And few aspects of human life inspire more discontent than politics. The longing to withdraw from, escape, or transcend...

I’m angry, and I have been ever since I watched a 767 slam into the North Tower of the World Trade Center while walking to the office on a...

Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity By Darrin M. McMahon Oxford University Press, 262 pages, $35 As everyone knows, Alexis de Tocque­ville’s Democracy...

It is safe to say that at some point in the not-too-distant future, America will confront the question of whether or not to legalize the use and cultivation of...

America’s culture war is not about culture. It is about religion”Christianity, in particular”and its role in the public life of the nation. On one side, secularists of various stripes...