He found that when religion is discarded entirely, something terrible happens. Societies don’t become clear-eyed and calm. Quite the opposite. They become feverish. They become hostile.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” I’m pretty sure George Santayana had February on his mind when he came up with that line.

George Santayana was still an idealist when he wrote in 1905, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” No time in the past has been remembered more-or has been more ...

The Prince and Princess of Wales are spending autumn days in the outdoors as they settle into their new home Chris Jackson/Getty Kate Middleton and Prince William have instilled a love of the outdoors ...

MR. SANTAYANA has a wonderful gift of expression and writes with a distinction and charm which are an unending source of delight. Yet he leaves his readers with a strange unsatisfied feeling not free ...

Images rapidly circulated online Wednesday showing police escorting an older man away after the fatal shooting of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk — and many Utahns recognized him as occasionally ...

Plato and Aristotle in discussion, 1437, by Luca della Robbia (ca 1400-1482), marble tile, depicts two of the greatest philosophers, who wrote two of the all-time best philosophy books. Philosophy ...

In some ways, George Floyd's story was an Everyman's story. He grew up poor, he struggled in school and eventually fell into substance abuse. Most of the people he crossed paths with remember him as ...

THE MIDDLE SPAN: VOLUME II, PERSONS AND PLACES — George Santayana —Scribner ($2.50). As he grew old, writes George Santayana in this second volume of his autobiography, “persons yielded in interest to ...

George Foreman, world heavyweight boxing champion and Olympic gold medalist who later became an entrepreneur known for the indoor grills that bore his name, died Friday at 76. "Our hearts are broken," ...