A meditation on happiness, personal yet probing, from 1958.

Gerhard Casper’s memoir focuses on the highest principle of higher education: academic freedom.

Executive-Legislative Branch dynamics over foreign policy are less affected by partisanship than is the case in domestic policy.

Two veteran public high-school teachers parse new books about what they do every weekday.

Aristotle and Plato famously differed about plenty, but we might take to heart what they agreed on.

A reflection on Jerome Kern, the man who created the American standard.

The Ebola outbreak has killed over one thousand people to date. While the infected countries fight to contain it with varied rates of success, it is draining their economies.

For a Thursday evening pick-me-up, here’s a list of our favorite links.

The state and the state system alike are in trouble, and the reasons may go deeper than most suspect.

Alarmed by a swift and ravenous ISIS to the north, and al-Qaeda in the Arabia Peninsula to the south, Saudi Arabia is cracking down on terrorism at home and abroad.