Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. André Weil (left, in 1956) and Simone Weil (in 1922) were siblings who became prominent in mathematics and philosophy, ...

Walter Russell Mead takes note of the meeting of the minds between populists and techno elites, both of whom dislike government bureaucrats (“American Exceptionalism Is Back,” Global View, Jan. 21).

“I don’t know whether there are any moral saints,” the philosopher Susan Wolf once wrote. “But if there are, I am glad that neither I nor those about whom I care most are among them.” Dissolute and ...

In 1942, Simone Weil was tasked by Charles de Gaulle’s Free France movement to write a report on how France could be rebuilt after driving out the Nazi invaders. What she handed in was something else ...

Was She a Saint? It may be a long time before the Christian world knows what to make of the Frenchwoman named Simone Weil. She was born (in 1909) into an agnostic Jewish family, and died (in 1943) a ...

Simone Weil once told a student, “What I cannot stand is compromise.” This unyielding stance underpinned the French philosopher’s life and work, which offered profound insights into a pressing issue ...

“The Visionaries,” by Wolfram Eilenberger, examines the divergent theories of self and other developed in a time of crisis by Hannah Arendt, Simone de Beauvoir, Ayn Rand and Simone Weil. By Jennifer ...

Amid the firehose of executive orders since Donald Trump reentered the White House, ranging from the return of plastic straws (“paper ones don’t work”) to the return of Mount McKinley (the president ...