As a conscientious liberal, Sowell leaves you with a nagging question: Why haven't you or anyone you know grappled with his work?

As the Seder traditions demonstrate, particularism and universalism are not at all antithetical in Judaism. Indeed, each presupposes the other.

Betraying the next generation into mediocrity while limiting their freedom can never be “moral.”

As we look back on Ratzinger and the times he lived through—we might see him as a prophet of our time.

Politics shouldn't determine what counts as art, but the energy released and channeled by art has a profound effect on politics, for good or ill.

We rapidly come up against the problem of the utility of basic distinctions: Games are games and not art.

Conservative liberals didn’t hesitate to connect the principles and institutions underpinning market economies to the West’s civilizational foundations.

Our society was once devoted to the rule of law rather than the rule of men. A focus on the representativeness of judges will entrench a rule of identity.

The urgent practical questions for statesman and citizen alike are: how much political violence is being committed right now? And who’s committing it?

The Beauty and the Terror comes at an opportune time in human history, inviting readers to recognize how 16th century culture still resonates.