The defense of the indefensible often leads to a kind of derangement in otherwise rational people.

The two men shook hands, then chose their pistols from a case.

The Holy See is doing little to challenge authoritarian regimes.

The romantic soul of William Wordsworth thrilled over the French Revolution:

Politics as religion and religion as politics are sure ingredients for demagoguery. 

A student once told me during a class on Aristotle's Ethics that everyone he knew wanted to live somewhere else. 

The moral conflicts that permeate our public policy debates are endless and irresolvable because our culture no longer has a rational, mutually accepted way of getting to moral agreement, writes Philadelphia’s Archbishop Charles Chaput in this exclusive excerpt from his new book.

Judge Gorsuch will be an originalist Supreme Court justice in the Scalia mold.

On the Saturday afternoon last February when he received word of Justice Scalia’s death, Neil M. Gorsuch "immediately lost [his] breath" and "couldn't see . . . for the tears."