Almost all major cities in the United States have experienced major decreases in violent crime over the past 25 years.

It is a bittersweet day for all who lived and worked at the longtime home of America magazine.

What perils would Jefferson and Franklin warn us against?

Once grouped with the Irish and the Polish as a signally devout Catholic population, the citizens of Quebec are now quite the opposite.

"We are more comfortable with Ezra Pound the madman, because we do not want to ponder Pound the monster."

If the Christian intellectual is dead, has a Catholic cousin survived?

Economic advantage is not the only goal of higher education.

I am a firm believer in the power of place.

Charlie Brown is dead, but Bob Dylan is 75 years old today.

Vin Scully, Southern California's soundtrack to summertime, is retiring.