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, ...

Reading the writings of Simone Weil (1909-1943) takes my breath away. Her thoughts are always fresh and have the dew upon them. An intellectual is a person for whom the life of the mind is extremely ...

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 ...

“The Visionaries,” by Wolfram Eilenberger, examines the divergent theories of self and other developed in a time of crisis by Hannah Arendt, Simone de Beauvoir, Ayn Rand and Simone Weil. By Jennifer ...

Simone Weil, edited by Robert Chenavier and André A. Devaux, trans. from the French by Nicholas Elliot. Belknap, $37.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-674-29237-6 This inessential collection traces the personal ...

Was She a Saint? It may be a long time before the Christian world knows what to make of the Frenchwoman named Simone Weil. She was born (in 1909) into an agnostic Jewish family, and died (in 1943) a ...

Her death left no particular gap—even among French intellectuals—because she had never seemed to belong anywhere. As a Jew she denounced everything Jewish; as a Christian she shrank from joining a ...

Istart my mornings by emailing everyone at my organization a roundup of immigration headlines and news. I’ve been working on the communications team at the National Immigrant Justice Center since I ...

The Visionaries: Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil and the Power of Philosophy in Dark Times. By Wolfram Eilenberger. Translated by Shaun Whiteside. Penguin Press; 400 pages; $32. Allen Lane; £25 In ...