Honor culture ideals, which focus on kinship, reputation and masculinity, are linked to how people name their babies, new research finds.

In “The Rise of Victimhood Culture,” I described the work of sociologists Bradley Campbell and Jason Manning, who argued that the United States made the transition from an honor culture to a ...

Yet we’re now seeing honor culture return to cultural spaces that had once been colonized by meritocracy. Why Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars is beside the point.