Perhaps Middle Americans are less confident in marriage than their more affluent peers because they have experienced more divorce, more fatherlessness, more relationship turnover.
We care if a cathedral is destroyed. Why not a language?
A peek inside L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper.
Haiti's cholera outbreak is now a full-fledged humanitarian disaster, but at heart it is a management issue.
Nowhere did the imaginations of utopians run so rampant, and nowhere did they receive a more stinging rebuke.
The influential moral philosopher has long stood outside the mainstream. Has the financial crisis finally vindicated his critique of global capitalism?
Why are so few young Japanese willing to procreate?
Images of child laborers around the world.
Charles Taylor believes that it is essential for the future of democracy.
Does strong religious belief provide an evolutionary advantage?
It's just a shame that those most in need of his thoughtfulness are precisely the people now scoffing at him on Twitter.
Does the example of a forgotten Darwin critic have any lessons for us?
Abortion law is usually seen as a matter of constitutional law. Is it time for that to change?
Europeans are starting to realize that their governments are too big. Will Americans catch on next?
A brutal bombing in Baghdad may be the final straw for this minority community.
A summary of 26 conclusions from the social sciences.
America's wealth could be chalked up to the fact that it's a uniquely large and uniform nation.
When modern Malthusians insist that resources are finite, they only expose their historical illiteracy, misanthropy and social pessimism.
How do we express what cannot be said? asks Roger Scruton.
What does procrastination tell us about ourselves?
If we are serious about global warming, America needs to work with China to build a greener future on a foundation of coal.
A mini Big Bang is recreated in the Large Hadron Collider.
It's hard to go past this article on disability
Why does the developed world still pour money into the coffers of dictators?
40 years of Doonesbury
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