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Is this deference to bankers among the American religious an historical curiosity or de rigueur behavior? Let us hear from you!

“They don’t sound much like experts,” the child said. And, as we watch the latest news about the banks and the government, we must sadly agree.

Muslim leaders in Uzbekistan want women to wear traditional dress, not the Arab-imported hijab, and they’ve enlisted fashion experts to make the case.

This summer’s victories toward LGBT equality do not change much for professors and students at some Christian colleges. And not looking good if you’re a gay Boy Scout who’s hit voting age.

The July 1st international edition of Time magazine has added fuel to the fire with a cover photo of the fundamentalist Burmese monk Wirathu, calling him “The Face of Buddhist Terror.” Protesters took to the streets this weekend, and President Thein Sein officially banned the magazine, citing concern about the “recurrence of religious and racial conflict.” Buddhist Terror? Harsh voices of intolerance have become almost daily news from…

Walt Whitman counseled each of us to “dismiss whatever insults your soul.” My fervent hope is that the new Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences report—a project of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences that was “commissioned” or “requested” by a quartet of DC pols—will be dismissed accordingly.

As the economy tanks, suicide rises…

A new Harris poll reveals America’s heroes…and those who are heroes no more.

Is religious extremism on its way out?

Pope Benedict has a routine that other world leaders might covet.