WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's first test in the national security arena after taking the oath of office to become the 44th president of the United States is likely to come not from al-Qaida or Iran or the Taliban in Afghanistan but from within his own Democratic Party.

NEW YORK, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- In a famous passage of his History of the Peloponnesian War, the Greek general and historian Thucydides describes the frightful anomie that spread throughout th

NEW YORK, Nov. 4 (UPI) -- "Eat drink and be merry!" Many people consider that a fair summary of the Epicurean philosophy, named for its founder, the Athenian philosopher Epicurus who liv

NEW YORK, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- One of the most generous people I know, a doctor, denies that there is such a thing as altruism.

NEW YORK, Aug. 12 (UPI) -- You do not have to be a student of philosophy to have heard the name Michel Foucault.

NEW YORK, July 1 (UPI) -- Like all ancient authors today, Plutarch is at best a name to most people, even to most college-educated people. You, dear reader, belong to a select group, because you know that Plutarch was a Greek biographer and moral philosopher.

NEW YORK, June 3 (UPI) -- It is difficult to recall now the celebrity that the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) enjoyed in the 1950s and 1960s.

NEW YORK, May 6 (UPI) -- A couple of months ago, my wife and I were having dinner at the Garrick Club in London with an eminent political philosopher and his wife.

NEW YORK, April 1 (UPI) -- On Monday it was reported The Netherlands had voted to legalize euthanasia -- sometimes called "mercy killing" -- which has long been practiced there.