Is the global religious revival advancing modernity, or hindering it?

Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker is an Iraq war film we can believe in.

Meet William Playfair, 18th-century philosopher, writer, inventor, spy.

California is broke. Ungovernable, too.

An old obsession goes virtual in the age of globalization.

A conversation with Amory Lovins on our energy and environmental challenges.

Several noteworthy news analyses published over the last several weeks underscore the salient observation in my article that, while the debate over nuclear energy in the United States continues, a number of other nations—including those that either have previously foresworn nuclear power or have never pursued it—are taking realistic steps toward building reactors in order […]

Il Divo captures Giulio Andreotti the tarnished icon, but not the man.

Reporting from the site of a mass murder.

Evangelicals are neither theocratic nor fundamentalist nor anti-modern.