Our reflection essay this week provides a brief overview of the complex nature of religion during the founding era and how it shaped our Constitutional order.

2023 is the 70th year since Regnery Publishing brought Russell Kirk's The Conservative Mind to the reading public. 

This is the fifth article in a series about the Electoral College that I think a lot of Americans want to know the answers to.

This is the fourth installment of a series of articles on the Electoral College and our presidential election system.

This is the third installment of columns exploring the history and operation of the Electoral College.

We celebrate Constitution Day, September 17^th, amidst concerns about its future.

This is the second installment in a series based on questions asked about the Electoral College.

I recently had the chance to talk with a group of high school students who asked me questions about the Electoral College.

One of the central conceits of this website is that good action comes from sound thinking, and sound thinking requires attention to how words are used.

Of late 18th century American novels only Uncle Tom's Cabin outsold and out paced in significance Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward, the story of Julian West, who falls asleep in 1887 amidst the chaos of late capitalism and awakes to the socialist utopia of the year 2000.

Too often we are inclined to attribute our Constitution and its subsequent success — we should not forget that its 236 year continuing legitimacy is one of the great accomplishments of the modern world

Winthrop gave this sermon aboard the Arabella, the ship upon which the Puritan community arrived in New England.

Wise people know that every generation stands on the shoulders of giants.

It is a very great honor and a high privilege, Governor Godwin, to come to the Commonwealth of Virginia and to this beautiful and significant home and to participate in this wonderful ceremony.

Like an atom, a polity consists of different elements, one of which is that there has to be some underlying principle of unity.

The 14^th Amendment is back in the news, which typically means something is afoot somewhere in this country, but is also an opportunity to review one of the most important provisions in our Constitution

This series concerns itself with our American heritage, and in particular to make contemporary readers more appreciative of the “blessings of liberty” that have been vouchsafed to us.

America is facing demographic decline. Whether it rises to the level of a crisis is open to debate (although you can put me squarely in the “uh oh” camp, and not only because I’m in my 60’s and devoid of grandchildren, which, in historical terms, is an anomaly of a high order).

We’ve drawn the reader’s attention in a prior essay to Lincoln’s “Lyceum Address,” one of his more interesting speeches.