I’ll admit it: I’m biased. I attended a religiously-affiliated undergraduate college, and then went to a Catholic graduate school, and spent my career teaching at schools with religious missions.

My friend James Matthew Wilson recently wrote an essay over at Public Discourse that highlights an essential issue we rarely spend time discussing: the need to belong.

How could Gerald Ford, a fiscally conservative Republican, work with the liberal Democrats of his generation led by John F. Kennedy, Hubert Humphrey, and Tip O’Neill?

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.