Hyde Park's Corner

President Obama has made a troubling mistake and misjudgment in his comments about the arrest of Professor Henry Gates by Cambridge police S...

Peggy Noonan is a weekly columnist for the Wall Street Journal, and a best-selling author. A trustee of the conservative Manhattan Institute...

First published in 1909, the Five-Foot Shelf was conceived by the Harvard president Charles W. Eliot as "a good substitute for a libera...

Thomas Merton (1915-1968) was a Cistercian (Trappist) monk resident at the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky. He was a poet and, perhaps, the...

Under fire from fellow conservatives, he addresses Islamic Society WASHINGTON - Defying some of his fellow conservative Christian critics, ...

Every spring among the ambiguities of childhood the hillsides grew white with the wild trilliums. I believe in the world. Oh, I wanted to be...

Doonesbury found it's edge again with yesterday's Sunday strip . The strip has always been intelligent, thought provoking, even unc...

Who is my brother or sister on my spiritual journey? How do I recognize such people? Is it their profession of faith, their claim of identit...

Would You Think It Odd? * Would you think it odd if Hafiz said, "I am in love with every church And Mosque And Temple And any kind ...

Aid for unemployment, health care and further education Eppelheim, Germany. [W]ith the auto industry here hit especially hard — this i...

There are two basic truths about the enormous deficits that the federal government will run in the coming years. The first is that President...

Obama did not run for president "to manage banks" or auto makers "Our objective is not to supplant or replace markets,"...

Barack Obama delivers a convincing speech to Muslims around the world In a rousing speech on Thursday June 4th Barack Obama used the magnify...

Unwed pregnant teens and 20-somethings who attend or have graduated from private religious schools are more likely to obtain abortions than ...

It was 1962 when I bought his newly-minted first album, titled appropriately enough, Bob Dylan . I was 15 years old. It offered mostly fol...