While Odysseus and Achilles fought for the same cause, they embody two different approaches to ancient Greek heroism.

Although it is good to honor heroes in uniform it would be good to remember the uniformity of heroism itself. Heroism is the same in all ages because, in essence, it is synonymous with holiness. A ...

We live in an age of lesser — lesser goods, lesser men, and a widespread acceptance of lesser evils among the great evils of the age. To make matters worse, we’ve become much too accepting of that ...

Jasper Schuringa, a passenger on Northwest Flight 253 to Detroit, helped prevent alleged bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab from setting off an explosive device on the flight on Christmas Day. Would you ...

Are heroes real, or are they simply stories we tell ourselves? Either heroes are objectively real—brave people who perform extraordinary acts of courage and sacrifice—or heroism is merely in our heads ...

Catherine O’Hara’s turn in The Nightmare Before Christmas proved Disney didn’t need princesses to create a defining female hero.

IMPD honored five officers for heroism during a rescue where they saved two children but couldn't revive the father.

Like all great mysteries, this begins with a corpse. On January 13, 1982, Air Florida Flight 90 smashed nose-first into the rock-solid ice covering the Potomac River just outside Washington, D.C. To ...