Milton Friedman, my teacher and friend, was born on this day in 1912. Widely understood to have been one of the foremost economists of all time, with a mastery of quantitative aspects of the study of ...

You have wearied the Lord with your words . . . by saying, ‘Every evildoer is good in the sight of the Lord.’”         ...

MADISON — While Jason Jones was badly injured inside his Laurel home after killing four people on the morning of Aug. 4, 2022 ...

As if to rub it in, the former president claimed his mother had once slept on a hotel floor after being told the British ...

In classical Chinese law, cruelty disrupted cosmic order and sentience carried moral weight. Under Xi Jinping, legality has ...

This 2025 reissue from Craft Recordings and Bluesville keeps it classy and faithful: original Studs Terkel liner notes (because you don’t mess with gospel), newly remastered audio, 180-gram vinyl ...

Sam Tanenhaus’s authorized biography of William F. Buckley, Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America, ...

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Our knowledge of ancient literature comes to us through the hands of scribes. The works of Aristotle, Galen and Ptolemy ...

Aided with a grant from the Fulbright U.S. Student Program, the resident of Brooklyn, New York, is in Heidelberg, Germany, ...

Discover how renewing the timeless conversation of philosophy offers an antidote to nihilism — and a way forward.

When someone says, “A real Buddhist wouldn’t do that,” they might be falling into the No True Scotsman fallacy—redefining a ...