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Rediscovering America: Liberty, Equality, and the Crisis of Democracy by john agrestoasahina & wallace, 236 pages, $16.00 In what sense are all men created equal? America’s Declaration of Independence...

Shutting Out the Sun: How Japan Created Its Own Lost Generation by Michael Zielenziger Doubleday, 340 pages, $24.95 Their calm demeanors, high standards of living, and clean, crimeless streets...

Walter Isaacson’s biography Einstein: His Life and Universe hit bookstands yesterday and promises to be a bestseller. Time magazine has made an excerpt available online called “Einstein & Faith”...

Michael Polanyi: Scientist and Philosopher, by William Taussig Scott and Martin X. Moleski, S.J., Oxford University Press, 384 pages, $45 Michael Polanyi: The Art of Knowing, by Mark T....

After printing an evenhanded op-ed on neurology and the paranormal (registration required), the New York Times carries a curious story about science and free will . “Free will does...

A junior fellowship at First Things is an intellectually gratifying experience for a young writer or scholar interested in religion and culture. Take my word for it: I’ve worked...

It was standing-room-only on Monday night when Philip Jenkins delivered the annual Erasmus Lecture at the Union League Club here in Manhattan. Jenkins discussed the current explosion of third-world...

Tucked away in the back of last week’s New York Review of Books , Michael Sandel and Thomas Nagel partook in an exchange on liberalism and abortion rights ,...

Christians look at creation and see the handiwork of the Lord. Nonreligious environmentalists marvel at what natural selection has produced. Despite their differences, the two can agree we have...

Depending on whom you ask, it’s either the holy grail of physics¯the prophesied Theory of Everything¯or a Theory of Nothing, a monumental waste of time and money. What it...