Books, Culture & the Arts

For the “intravidual,” life is BlackBerries, conferences, snippets of family time, and a constant desire to be elsewhere. But how many people really live like that?

Darwin and Lincoln were born on the same day two centuries ago. A mere coincidence, or did the two men write the language of modern liberalism?

An army is a grand exercise in group loyalty and cooperation. Understanding what holds it together provides lessons beyond the military.

As the field of green architecture experiences its growing pains, sustainability and good design have yet to meet.

Writing policy is easy. Making it work is hard. And when those who run government have no respect for the institutions, it’s even harder.

Malcolm Gladwell’s latest mixes some insights from social science with some compelling anecdotes. Unfortunately, the plural of “anecdote” is not “data.”

Popular writers and scientists alike are trying to help readers understand climate change, but doing so requires new thinking about the scale of time.

A new era may be dawning in which artists, strongly supported by the president, will develop new forms of enduring art.

The era of big government is over. But now, so is the era of markets. Can we find the right balance?

Social scientist Charles Murray aims to provoke. This time, it’s with four broad-brush, simplistic claims about higher education.