These days, you can’t buy so much as a chocolate bar without being given a receipt. What’s behind this unnecessary pedantry?

Contemporary liberalism's insistence that morality is a mere matter of rights and obligations empties life of its ethical meaning. We need a return to the virtue ethics of the pre-moderns, and a renewed conception of the good life

Günter Grass's revelations about his Nazi past will end the temptation to take his political pronouncements seriously—which is no bad thing