Assessing the impact of a modern financial sector on an economy’s capacity for innovation is tricky. We’re working on the problem.

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.

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

A century after World War I’s beginning, many observers wonder whether the U.S. and China are headed down a similar path to great-power war. While we must weigh that prospect seriously, we should not neglect more likely risks to global order.

America’s cultural left and right have globalized the battle over questions of sexuality.

A burgeoning alliance between social conservatives and civil libertarians to oppose the nanny state might help end some particular abuses, but in the end the two camps want very different things. Their different goals represent two very different understandings of what human beings are and how they should live.

Protests targeting an Israeli theater company in Scotland are the latest examples of the increasingly uncomfortable position of Jews across Europe.