The results of the investigation into the sexual abuse scandal at Penn State University, released last week, suggest a crisis of conscience in the academy.

Mohamed Morsi, an Islamist and former leader in the Muslim Brotherhood, is promising to be “a president for all Egyptians.”

Just before historian Philip Hallie discovered the story of Chambonnais—the French villagers who rescued thousands of Jews during the Second World War—he was in a state of deep depression.

When Plato established his Academy in Athens in 387 BC, he laid a foundation for education in the West that regarded knowledge as inseparable from character.

The passion of American ministers for political freedom in 1776 reflected their belief in religious toleration.

Many Europeans by now must be shaking their heads in either disgust or bewilderment at America’s ongoing debate over health-care reform.

Revolutionary pamphleteer Thomas Paine once observed that a political crisis could become a clarifying moment. Such moments, he wrote, “sift out the hidden thoughts of man.”

“Religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence.”

The elevation to Cardinal of New York’s Archbishop Timothy Dolan presents a massive conceptual challenge to American liberals, especially New Yorkers.

In a move that has stunned even many of his supporters, President Obama has stigmatized and enraged one of the most important institutions in the American electorate: the Catholic Church.