In a 2007 poll, 58 percent of children said they would choose happiness over wealth. But what does it take to make people happy? 

Kofi Annan, the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations and the first black African to hold the position, served from 1997 to 2006. 

The European “process model” of governing carries two troublesome risks. The first is a moral dilemma: where does a secular society look when setting moral boundaries?

The European “process model” of governing carries two troublesome risks.  The first is a moral dilemma. The second is its vulnerability to tyranny.

The idea that global peace can be achieved through world government has a long history. But how realistic is this hope?

American and British researchers have identified several indicators that child care now occupies less of the average adult’s lifetime than in past decades.

Vision publisher David Hulme discusses politics and religion—and politics as religion—with Italian author and historian Emilio Gentile.

On the heels of extensive government intervention in economies around the world, Ayn Rand made a comeback. Is her philosophy really the answer?

The current financial crisis reveals that humanity has been here before. And we’ll be here again, unless we start taking a fundamentally different approach.

Today buyers and sellers do not trust each other, and the economic activity essential for civil order and prosperity has all but stopped for many nations.