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In the Hollywood version of courage, the hero is unafraid; he can thus act without hesitation. But a person who is unafraid cannot be considered courageous. They have no need to be courageous. In real life, courageous people are frightened. They hesitate. They calculate the risks and act not because they are fearless, but because they believe in a cause greater than themselve...

Spain’s socialist government says it’s not to blame for the 50,000 or more migrants who poured across the Spanish-Moroccan border into the city of Ceuta over the last 24 hours, which resulted in

Imagine the headlines if right-wing politicians in Germany were starting to bar left-wing candidates from running for office, and doing so just three weeks after a mob of right-wing extremists had chased and beaten left-wing journalists in the streets

The New York Times would likely splash the story across its front page with a picture of the attacked reporters. The Was...

Over the last several decades, governments across the Western world have dramatically expanded the power of the state to euthanize their own citizens. The Netherlands and Belgium legalized euthanasia in 2002. Canada’s Supreme Court struck down the country’s prohibition on assisted suicide in 2015; its Parliament created medical assistance in dying, or MAiD, the following year...