Yet another sharp shard in a quickly fracturing world: Al-Qaeda has issued a call for Muslims in Kashmir to use Syria and Iraq as a model for fighting India. What’s the plan, Mr. President?

Why 1814 should tell us more than 1914 about 2014.

Is television the new cinema? Just asking the question that way misses the point of both media.

Mainline Protestantism didn’t secularize itself via the Social Gospel and become weaker as a religion; it became a new religion—and a powerful one, too.

Britain is leaping head first into the juridicalization of its politics. It will regret it.

All hell breaks loose, contemplatively speaking, when a retired prof goes looking for her great-grandmother in order to find herself.

The postmodern state is under siege from plutocrats and criminals who unknowingly compound each other’s insidiousness.

Greens rejoice! Car-sharing service Uber is not only making car ownership in metropolitan areas less necessary. It also appears to be spurring on the adoption and development of public transportation.

In a chat with 20-somethings who use Tumblr, President Obama warned them from entering the legal profession. Maybe this will finally get the attention of the law school presidents.

President Obama, Hilary Clinton, J.K. Rowling, and now even Pope Francis are expressing hopes that Scotland will remain a part of the United Kingdom.