Since the end of World War II, commencement ceremonies have been the occasion for some of the most memorable…
“We learned in our class that if you believe in peace, you can stay alive,” said the eleven-year-old boy.…
Throughout history, the sight of armed soldiers has always terrified civilians. Soldiers almost always meant an orgy of looting,…
“It doesn’t matter who dies,” the Palestinian boy told the American journalist, “just as long as they’re Israeli.”…
After breaking up with his girlfriend, Wei-Li Tjong, a young New York attorney, set out to meet someone…
In the early twentieth century — during the Scopes Trial, for instance — evolution was the new theory…
PBS is about to rebroadcast its eight-hour series, “Evolution.” When the series first aired last year, I told…
A recent headline in The New York Times wins the prize for stating the obvious: “No Quick Fix…
Last week, Pim Fortuyn, a controversial Dutch politician, was assassinated as he left a radio interview. Fortuyn’s murder…
In the past month we’ve seen a series of attacks on European Jews and their institutions. In France,…