The extraordinary valour of the young in Iran has exposed the moral bewilderment of the young in the West Imagine seeing that ...

Perhaps the caustic voice from Baltimore — H.L. Mencken — was a bit too cynical regarding those inscribed stone tablets. All civilizations and cultures need concepts of “good and bad” or “right and ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth seems to be a war criminal. Without a war. An interesting achievement. George Will / Washington Post In 1967, novelist Gwyn Griffin published a World War II novel, “An ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth seems to be a war criminal. Without a war. An interesting achievement. In 1967, novelist Gwyn Griffin published a World War II novel, “An Operational Necessity,” that 58 ...

In Focus delivers deeper coverage of the political, cultural, and ideological issues shaping America. Published daily by senior writers and experts, these in-depth pieces go beyond the headlines to ...

In 1953, he and three fellow researchers co-discovered the double-helix structure of DNA — a breakthrough that unlocked the secrets of how life works. The discovery revealed how a molecule could store ...

Netflix's latest “Frankenstein” adaptation is one of the most celebrated yet. In this article, we're recapping everything that occurred and answering the question, ‘What happened at the end of ...

Henry Kissinger once wrote that a statesman’s hardest burden is making decisions without enough time or information, where every mistake is irreversible. I learned that truth not only on the ...

I could tell even before opening the door of the sauna at the local YMCA that the conversation was lively. “Meet our new young resident philosopher,” a friend said to me as I entered. I sat down, and ...

Newton’s third law almost fits our polarized politics: For every action there is an extreme and opposite reaction. As Gerard Baker notes in “Trump Accelerates Our Decline Into Moral Relativism” (Free ...

For most of the last few centuries, advances in scientific understanding have seemed to undermine arguments for the existence of God. Physical phenomena ascribed to a deity have been discovered to ...