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Punitive yet salvific, austerity is the ideology of a country that has turned against its own culture.

Charles Taylor is a sadly endangered type: the philosopher-statesman.

Amid economic stagnation, polls show increasing skepticism about the competence of German elites. Can a resurgent Green Party bring political renewal?

Scientists, Sam Harris writes, are the saints of circumspection. If that’s true, then with his writing on religion and morality Harris breaks the mold.
 

The musical and political strands of Dmitri Shostakovich's life were intertwined like the braids of a noose.

The politics of the Templeton Foundation's "Big Questions."

Gary Wills's Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State; Elizabeth Arnold's Effacement.

At Berkeley in 1964, Mario Savio embodied the need to speak and act in the face of doubt.

The leaked "Climategate" e-mails undermine climate activists' claim to the moral high ground.