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Last year the United Nations Population Division predicted that global population will peak in approximately sixty years, at around 10.3 billion people. After that, the number of human beings will begin to fall...

The Catholic Church never condemned the theory of evolution nor came close to doing so. One might have expected otherwise: Many of the factors that had led to the Galileo fiasco...

A controversial abortion case reaches the Supreme Court, and men in black robes impose their religious views on the country...

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–94) belongs at the head of a select company of writers renowned in their day...

Recently I checked into a pleasant, fairly sterile Marriott in Shoreditch ahead of my London debut as a playwright...

John Fisher, the renowned Bishop of Rochester, is known to history chiefly for having been put to death by King ­Henry VIII...

Was the First Gulf War a mistake? The histor­ian Paul Schroeder thought the answer was "yes." In his arresting formulation, Operation Desert Storm was “a just, unnecessary...

Alice Roberts is a familiar face in British media. A skilled archaeologist, she has for years hosted the television show Digging for Britain, which is a superb piece...

There is a narrative of Mexican history that might be called “liberal,” or perhaps more accurately “liberal-national-revolutionary.” It says that enlightened thinkers...

Is there a life beyond the screen? In 2010, Nicholas Carr’s The Shallows described what the internet was doing to our brains. Although still relevant today...

Writing early in 1810, diplomat and scholar Georg Griesinger gave the most detailed surviving account...

The Sabbath is making a comeback. Across the West, that most singular and ancient of weekly phenomena—a day marked by the absence . . .

Christian Smith, a sociologist at Notre Dame, has a knack for turning academic research ­into books that resonate beyond the ivory tower. The concept of “moralistic therapeutic ­deism”...

The Book of Mormon simultaneously affirms the Bible and challenges its uniqueness, with the stated purpose to convince “the Jew and Gentile that JESUS is the CHRIST, the ETERNAL GOD, manifesting himself unto all nations.”

America is awash in rights talk. Rights to life, liberty, property, and the pursuit of happiness permeate our Founding documents and our culture...