If you’ve seen your children struggle to forgive someone for hurting them, you know that forgiveness is complicated. After all, forgiveness is complicated for adults, too. At times, we wonder why ...

I was talking to a group of zombies. Not actual zombies, but a group of young people on their phones, staring at small glowing screens instead of making eye contact. They were half-listening and ...

I was nineteen, maybe twenty, when I realized I was empty-headed. I was in a college English class, and we were in a sunny seminar room, discussing “For Whom the Bell Tolls,” or possibly “The Waves.” ...

With the Age Discrimination in Employment Act coming into force back in 1967, the notion of age discrimination has a long history. Unfortunately, it’s an issue that we still grapple with today, and ...

From defeating chess grandmasters to generating images using only keywords to predicting protein shapes, artificial intelligence has come a long way since the early computer era. And in that time, the ...

Question everything. That is the common advice given at commencement speeches to young graduates about to embark into the ‘real world’. Fresh and full of vigor, they are encouraged to reach new ...

Dr. Snyder is a professor of history at Yale University and the author of “On Freedom.” I know a town in southern Ukraine where every single house has been destroyed by shelling or bombing. Even the ...

David Bentley Hart is an Eastern Orthodox scholar of religion and a philosopher, writer, and cultural commentator. He is author and translator of 23 books, including the award-winning Theological ...

Being a parent raises so many urgent, concrete questions—Will this movie cause nightmares? Is this enough sunscreen? Where are the Cheez-Its?—that the abstract ones often slip beneath the surface, ...

Talk about pieces you don’t want to write. The first thought that flitted through my mind on Wednesday as the push notification came in that former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright had died was, ...