Near the end of the fourth narrator's story in Wedding Song (1984)* by Naguib Mahfouz (1911-2006), the pressures of life and love have ...

Two religious traditions are pervasive in American culture. The evangelical tradition is the spiritual; civil religion , the political. Thes...

From an essay published in 1946. There is no end to the illusions of patriotism. In the first century of our era, Plutarch mocked those who ...