In his recent book on what artificial intelligence could mean for a culture permeated with the spirit of self-improvement (an $11 billion industry in the U.S. alone), Mark Coeckelbergh points to a ...

One of the works I cited in my column this week is the volume “African American Political Thought: A Collected History,” edited by the political theorists Melvin L. Rogers and Jack Turner. The book is ...

“A Savage Art” looks at the life of the prizewinning Pat Oliphant and argues such work is “a serious expression of a political thought.” By Alissa Wilkinson When you purchase a ticket for an ...

The Signing of the Constitution of the United States at the Constitutional Convention of 1787. Oil painting on canvas by Howard Chandler Christy, 1940. GraphicaArtis / Contributor / Getty Images ...

ASK MEMBERS of China’s elite—from senior officials to academics at leading universities, well-known commentators or bosses at big companies—to explain the beliefs of the country’s leader, Xi Jinping, ...