Charles McNamara

Language, like biology, is always on the move. Here’s a look into the surprising lexical history of infectious disease.

The Greek-military historian Victor Davis Hanson attempts to paint Donald Trump as a tragic hero, but his analysis neglects the real meaning of Aristotle’s term.

A new series occasionally distills ancient texts into soulless banalities that merely flatter and reinforce our twenty-first-century sensibilities

Francis isn’t the first to question a key phrase of the Lord’s Prayer