By the 1970s, the medical community believed they had all but won the war against communicable diseases. What happened?

Roughly 75 percent of the pathogens linked with emerging infections, are zoonoses—diseases that are transmitted between vertebrate animals and people.

The magnitude of evil perpetrated by Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini and their brutal totalitarian regimes proved them utterly false messiahs.

Most Bible scholars pit the apostles James and Paul against one another. A brief review of the historical record shows the origins of that mistaken idea.

Identity awareness means asking and answering the question, “Who am I?” But this is only the starting point in resolving intercommunal problems.

All civilizations and cultures, it seems, developed legends about avoiding our inevitable date with death. Could these accounts have a common source?

Vision reviews two books by R.J.B. Bosworth on Benito Mussolini and life in Italy under his dictatorship.  

The apostle Paul sets out on a journey to the ancient cities of Asia Minor and Greece. Even today, his experiences offer valuable and instructive lessons.

Whenever times or circumstances change, people’s concept of truth changes with it. So what is truth?

“Truth” that is not applicable to all people everywhere is not truth but opinion. Religion not based on truth is therefore merely opinion with no moral force.

What Paul and Barnabas taught Jews and gentiles as they traveled through Cyprus and Asia Minor is the subject of considerable debate and misunderstanding.

Vision explores the potential of a flu pandemic through two authors who address different aspects of the issue.

William B. Hurlbut, a member of the President’s Council on Bioethics, discusses his proposed alternative to using embryonic stem cells in stem cell research.

The potential usefulness of embryonic stem cells in molecular medicine is huge, as are the ethical issues surrounding these tiny biological entities.

Part Three: Concluding our series on the history of the world’s dominant economic system, we look at where capitalism is taking us and ask whether there is a better way.

Described as the “restorer of religion, savior of the Church, anointed sovereign, living saint,” Napoleon was perhaps one of the most arrogant false messiahs.

Napoleon’s Imperial Catechism as issued by the emperor in 1806.

Asking what makes humans unique brings to mind an interesting list of attributes and activities. But what really makes us different from animals?

Using recalled personal history to examine the crucial place that Jerusalem has occupied in the identity and ideology core of fourteen key Palestinian and Jewish/Israeli leaders in the Arab-Zionist impasse, David Hulme explores the roles of identity and ideology in preventing or promoting a resolution between Israel and the Palestinians.

What role will nationalism play in the developing global economy? Liah Greenfeld of Boston University offers her view.