Mathematicians rely on numbers, but finding words to explain different levels of certainty has stymied everyone from the ancient Greeks to the most famous modern philosophers. Maths columnist Jacob Ar ...

“As America begins its Semiquincentennial celebration, I will be happy to visit one of the great shrines of democracy itself, ...

For hundreds of years, thinkers have tried to answer this problem by attempting to understand the origin of laws and rights that would pre-​date not only the state, but also societies themselves. One ...

Government action is necessary to tackle antisemitism, but the form that action takes matters as much as its intent.

RALEIGH — In places where governments are smaller, taxes are lower, regulations are lighter and property rights are more secure, people tend to be more generous, trustful and tolerant. Although my ...

The Latinate term for the upcoming 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence is “semiquincentennial,” which doesn’t roll off the tongue easily. (You can use the alternative Latinates ...

The Trump adviser’s assertions about the “real world” reflect a deep misunderstanding of Thomas Hobbes’s dog-eat-dog worldview.

This important exhibition at the National Gallery in London is exactly the kind of thing our biggest public galleries – in ...

In places where governments are smaller, taxes are lower, regulations are lighter, and property rights are more secure, ...

I’ve always believed that Stanford goes the way of the world, if only a little bit earlier. We were early to wokeism, and ...

The American experiment, inspired by Locke’s writings, would function in the model of Biblical Israel, balancing the gift of human rationality with belief in the grace of Heaven.