Tort law, which holds people accountable for their words, is an unexplored approach to the problem of hateful speech.

A Christmas tune once inspired the liberal Ninth Circuit to believe in miracles.

The self-knowledge Solzhenitsyn sought is not merely an account of his own soul but of “the truth of the soul and the order of things.”

Good conversation is one of the building blocks of human civilization.

The famous statement on university neutrality may not be what it seems.

Presentism and selective inputs make it easy to construct a simple narrative about any religion.

The Suffragettes believed that political rights would help women to be better mothers.

The capacity of the legions to exercise extreme violence was the necessary precondition for the Pax Romana.

Social media thrives on the superficiality of unexamined or first impressions—the very problem Jane Austen examines.

The Assyrians created a toolkit that would be used by future empires.