Former NPR business editor Uri Berliner earned extensive conservative accolades for his recent essay besmirching the federally-funded media organization for what he described as a newsroom increasingly biased in favor of the woke tenets of the Democratic Party.

On January 4, 1975, US President Gerald Ford signed into law a section of the Social Security Act that established a national child support collection system.

Has the practice of “civility” been left behind? Though it has never been practiced as well as it should, it nonetheless has supported a system of social manners, without which it is difficult to live together.

Most of my students say that the main reason for the sorry state of our democracy is that people are “not well-informed.”

I live not far from Prince George’s County, Maryland, which, due to rising rents and housing prices, enacted in April 2023 a temporary rent-stabilization law.

We in the United States in 2024 are in the midst of what political scientists and others call “polarization,” by which the poles of right and left grow stronger while the “center does not hold,” as the Irish poet once wrote.

Tolkien’s collected correspondence was first published in 1981; a new edition was released in late 2023, The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien: Revised and Expanded Edition, which adds more letters to the previous correspondence collection.

Recent times have been tough for Boy Scouts of America.  Although still one of the largest youth organizations in the US, its ranks have dwindled from about 3 million in the 1970s to fewer than 800,000 today

It is a fantasy of the industrial episode—that brief blip in human history that began with the Industrial Revolution but is now showing signs of congestive heart failure, complete with the attendant edema below the knees—that infinite desires can be satisfied indefinitely in a finite space.

The coarsening of public discourse has brought attention about the need to back civility back into the culture.

Executive privilege is the constitutional principle that permits the president and high-level executive branch officers to withhold information from Congress, the courts, and ultimately the public.

Here we go again. The presidential primaries are upon us.

It would not be difficult to make the case that Gerald Ford was the greatest athlete ever to serve as President of the United States.

In his Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle defines virtue as the mean between the extremes. While few people confuse courage with its lack (cowardice), there are many who might confuse it with its excess (bravado or cockiness).

Without question, the work of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil rights movement has impacted my entire life.

In a country so dominated by popular culture, those getting older lose touch with the young.

C. S. Lewis’s introduction to a modern translation of St. Athanasius’s On the Incarnation offers an apologia for reading old books.

In the middle decades of the 20^th century, there were topics that people just didn’t talk about in polite company.

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.