One of the more tiresome tropes that has emerged over the last seven years is the phrase “a threat to our democracy.”

Perhaps the most remarkable Boy Scout Annual Awards Dinner in scouting history took place at the Sheraton-Park Hotel in Washington, DC, on the evening of December 2, 1974.

In all the handwringing over so-called “populism,” much can be gleaned about our current politics when certain groups see their inferiors as exercising the franchise in the wrong way…

This panic-inducing headline from a recent story in the NYTimes found analogues in most stories that reported on the recent release of national civics and history tests administered to 8th graders.

One of the first lessons we learn in the Bible is that it is not good for man to be alone.

Back in October we at the Ford Leadership Forum partnered with Baylor University to host an event on fragility and resilience.

I had a colleague at Hope College who was extremely liberal.

Many of our cultural battles are intensified by our lack of imagination.

Our series of reflection essays are less intended to inform than to spur thinking.

Hamilton concluded his meditations on taxation by introducing two ideas that gained little traction at the time but would down the road.

I’ll confess that in my youth I was often regarded as mischievous, a moniker I’ve never fully outgrown and one in which I take some perverse delight.

One of the most mistaken beliefs in our culture is the idea that technology is neutral in its application.

George Washington died in 1799 a decade after the Constitution was ratified, and just two years after serving as the nation’s first President, elected for two full terms.

As his life neared its end, the genteel David McCullough gave a gift to the American people.

An essay I wrote on justice recently appeared in the journal Religion and Liberty.

After some time in the academy, I started obsessing about how certain words were being used.

Artificial Intelligence is in the news with a vengeance as ChatGTP released a new version of “chatbot.”

Readers may not be aware of it, but there is a significant academic debate going on about liberalism in general, and “Lockean liberalism” in particular.

In their recent book on The Black Intellectual Tradition: Reading Freedom in Classical Literature, Angel Adams Parham and Annika Prather argue that black emancipation and advancement have occurred when blacks have embraced the substance of the Western intellectual tradition