My high-school teachers were worried that I would lose my faith. They were right, but only in the long run.

Thomas Banchoff looks at how embryonic stem-cell research has been debated and is conducted in four major countries, viewing it in terms of the power of national histories and cultures to shape public policy.

Remembering Wilfrid Sheed

Why doesn’t the common good enter into our national health-care debate?

Hard truths about the ’American Way of Life’