The professor continues this week with his series of articles on Great Villains of the Bible. Previously we have discussed Judas and Caiaphas. This week: evil King Ahab and his provocative wife, ...

Editor’s Note: Laura Bernardini is director of coverage in CNN’s Washington Bureau. The views expressed in this column belong to Bernardini. That’s what happened during first Book of Kings: there wasn ...

MOBY-DICK is not only a very big book; it is also a peculiarly full and rich one, and from the very opening it conveys a sense of abundance, of high creative power, that exhilarates and enlarges the ...

The strangest thing about freedom in America is not how invisible it is to a foreigner or how cherished it is by those who live there but how frequently it’s portrayed as being under threat. Unlike ...