The strong do what they can, the weak suffer what they must. This phrase has been invoked by political pundits and leaders, including the Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, over the past few days as ...

Researchers reveal genetic insights disproving claims that medieval Greek population in the Peloponnese went extinct.

One day this fall, my phone rang too early in the morning for it to be anything but bad news. Stephen Appleby, one of my English cousins, was calling. His mother, my aunt Audrey, had died hours ...

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 progressive ...

North Carolina House Speaker Destin Hall (R-Caldwell) had created a 23-member select committee to evaluate potential reforms of the state’s property-tax system. That is a fine idea, a sensible reactio ...

At the end of Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” (ca. 1600), the titular prince delivers these dying words: “The rest is silence.” Joanna Stalnaker, a professor of French at Columbia University, adopts this line ...