André Weil (left, in 1956) and Simone Weil (in 1922) were siblings who became prominent in mathematics and philosophy, respectively. Konrad Jacobs (right) and Anonymous (left) via Wikimedia Commons, ...

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).

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 ...

Plenty of Jewish thinkers in twentieth-century Europe had strained relationships with Judaism. The French philosopher Simone Weil, for her part, seemed to wish to renounce her Judaism altogether.