Winston Churchill once remarked that we make our buildings, and then our buildings in turn make us. One difference between good design and bad design is that the former puts us at ease without our even realizing it, while the latter can cause psychic distress.

David French in this essay places alongside each other two contrasting thoughts of two contrasting thinkers—first friends, then enemies, then friends again—who were central figures in our nation’s early history.

I’m always interested when writers make some sort of assertion about the biological bases of moral judgments.

Politics, Aristotle wrote, is a mode of civic friendship; or, at the very least, a good polity is marked by high levels of civic friendship.

Among President Ford’s virtues was his well-known penchant for hard work.