Turkey’s recent civil strife, seemingly centered on the future of Gezi Park, has laid bare some deep historical wounds.

What do the spray-painted New York subway cars of the 1980s have in common with the graffiti-covered walls of the Arab Spring?

What we remember has a lot to do with how we remember it.

Texas is challenging California for the right to be called the harbinger of the nation’s future. How does its claim hold up?

We’ve long assumed that fraying families are a natural consequence of secularization. What if it’s the other way around?

Congress’s failure to pass a farm bill this year owes much to a grand but outdated political bargain pairing rural and urban interests.

The kosher certification industry shows us how the private sector can help the public sector handle complex but critical functions like food safety.

Iranian-Turkish history from half a millennium ago bears important advice for the United States today.

Decadence may be an inevitable outgrowth of modernity, but it doesn’t necessarily presage decline and fall. Liberty, properly understood as based on self-discipline, is the best bulwark against social and moral decay.

New adventures in America’s faith-based foreign policy.