On Monday, the United States stood on the brink of a trade war with Canada and Mexico. U.S. exchanges opened sharply lower, ...

But perhaps the relentless struggle for knowledge will open up a better way. Perhaps it will even be fun. As with Sisyphus and his boulder, one must imagine Agnes Callard happy.

Americans are not in the world of Sisyphus or in the world of those who face imminent death because of who they are. But these stories do tell us something about the way despair can clarify ...

THE work of reducing poverty in the land is like letting drops of water fall on a rock. You hope to make a crack, but you do not know when.