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If the Vatican’s recent declaration on human dignity, Dignitas Infinita, clarifies anything, it would seem to be that the Catholic Church, at its highest level of teaching authority, has not...

Rationality:What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Mattersby steven pinkerviking, 340 pages, $32 PINKER: Socrates! We don’t often see you here in Harvard Yard.* SOCRATES: No indeed,...

For ancient philosophers, the dignity of contemplation lay in its fulfillment of our longing for truth. The architects of modern thought championed analysis for the sake of ever-greater power...

More than a decade ago, David Brooks described a generation of America’s elite university students as “organization kids.” Their lives were obsessively scheduled around achievements designed to provide them...