Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. In Philip Bump’s March 13 online column, “A quarter-century ago, we ...

A new biography of Aaron Swartz tells the story of the ongoing fight between open-data philosophy and the federal government. Calling someone—or oneself—an idealist is not always a compliment. It ...

America is the reluctant sheriff of a wild world that sometimes seems mired in wrongdoing. The UN has nothing to offer in the way of enforcing laws and dispensing justice, other than spouting pious ...

Public opinion is a critical stakeholder in any democratic society. It determines who will be elected and what policies are likely to be successful. Biden has a numbers problem. This is bad news for ...

THIS thoughtful and eloquent address, originally delivered at the celebration of the Martineau centenary, contains much more about absolute idealism than about the philosophic system of the great ...

In a private audience with current american rhodes scholars at Oxford University last May, President Clinton urged us to battle the cynicism that threatens the American political system (not to ...

To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature. Adam Smith When we we talk about ...

In her preface to For the New Intellectual, Ayn Rand writes: "I am often asked whether I am primarily a novelist or a philosopher. The answer is: both." All novelists are philosophers to some degree; ...