Dr. Ruth's career has been resolutely committed to human flourishing—a flourishing that includes emotional and sexual fulfillment.

Allergy medications enhance the lives of millions of people, and contrary to some “experts,” there’s nothing vain or immoral about them.

John Marshall patiently upheld the principle of dual sovereignty and set vital legal precedents for America in her infancy.

Monticello, by America's first native-born architect, Thomas Jefferson, is a window into the mind of this most complex and captivating of Founders.

Among the stars of silent film, Buster Keaton stands out as a uniquely inventive talent.

Harvard professor Steven Pinker lays out a powerful case for cultural optimism in his book Enlightenment Now.

The poets E. E. Cummings and T. S. Eliot offer contrasting views of spring—and of mankind in general. Which captures the soul of the season?

We owe a debt of gratitude to the countless engineers and pilots who have managed to make air travel among the safest things human beings do.

For Daniel Chester French, sculpting was a means of lighting the world with optimism.

Kind of Blue is a landmark in the history of jazz, and even after sixty years, it still sounds fresh.

Ta-Nehisi Coates’s bestseller on race relations provoked many responses, but only Jason Hill confronts the core of Coates’s argument.

Hastings delivers well-founded judgments about war in prose that brings to life the experiences of those who fought them.

Timbs’s victory marks a significant advance for the protection of individual rights and provides a revealing glimpse into the crucial role that political philosophy plays in constitutional law.

For all his pessimism, Conrad held that a life of unfaltering conviction is a meaningful one.

Sheets created a contemporary art appropriate for a lender proud of its part in transforming the California desert into a land of innovation and plenty.