This college football season is probably the last one where geography still matters in the organization of the sport.

“This is the way they say you should take part in warfare and battle, Socrates,” says Callicles at the start of the dialogue Gorgias.

Is it permissible on a website devoted to the legacy of President Gerald R. Ford to admit a strong revulsion to presidential elections?

Over three football fields in length, almost one football field in width, twenty-five stories high, serving15,000 meals a day, and powered by two state-of-the-art A1B nuclear reactors, the gargantuan USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) is the largest warship in the world.

The study of history – American history in particular – has become poisoned by hopelessness in our postmodern era.

Political terms don’t have fixed meanings. When I say I’m a conservative, I don’t mean by that what people typically mean when they use that word.

This summer, when the US and its NATO allies wanted to demonstrate their solidarity in opposing the Russian invasion of Ukraine, they sent their greatest single weapon to the eastern Mediterranean– Gerald R. Ford. 

Perhaps no other thinker is so ardently claimed by both conservatives and liberals as Alexis De Tocqueville.

I expect most people agree that by making too much of a thing we can easily make too little of it—and also that as far as platitudes go that’s a fairly solid one.

Nine times in our nation’s history a US vice president has ascended to the office of president.

Aristotle argued that the only just polity had to be a “mixed regime,” and that meant one that blended popular and aristocratic elements.

The current crisis of social isolation and political polarization found in the United States and to a lesser extent in other liberal democracies has led recently to an upsurge of interest in friendship as a political category.

For about a decade beginning in 1965, NBC late night weekend programming consisted of Best of Carson reruns.

The men and women of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives love their job so much they are afraid to do it; because if they do it, they may lose it.

Betty Ford wrote two autobiographies. One, The Times of My Life (1978), tells the story of a young girl from Grand Rapids, Michigan, who became—much to her surprise—the wife of the President of the United States.

One of the best presidential ranking polls is conducted from time to time by the Wall Street Journal, which strategically interviews a relatively small but ideologically balanced group of scholars.

Ernest Hemingway wrote “Hills Like White Elephants” while on his honeymoon with his second wife, Pauline Pfeiffer, a somewhat boyish looking woman (in the style of the day) and a Catholic, though not a very good one.

Today, July 13, we celebrate the 236th anniversary of the enactment of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787.

On this 247^th birthday celebration of our nation, we might be forgiven if we indulge the impulse to feel good about ourselves.

Many accounts of Gerald Ford’s service in Congress, where he served from 1949 until 1973, depict him as a moderate-minded lawmaker who was willing to work with members of the other party to pass legislation.