The phrase “deliver us from evil” carries weight precisely because it is invoked at moments when restraint feels fragile and ...

Few novelists have captured the ultimate ambiguity of conscience better than Mark Twain did in Huckleberry Finn. Jim, the escaped slave who accompanies Huck down the river on a raft, is on a journey ...

HOW IS IT that the Bush administration, which is deadly serious in opposing terrorists and those who harbor them, could let Colin Powell declare last week–on the same day that senior terrorist Yasser ...