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

Many matters were debated at the Constitutional Convention, but the central issue involved the problem of political representation, which carries within itself one of the fundamental problems of social life: namely, the principal/agent problem.

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.

Scholars have long debated the role of religion in the founding of America.

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 1790, two years before Mary Wollstonecraft published her Vindication of the Rights of Woman, an American woman with the pen name “Constantia” released her own treatise on the equality of the sexes.

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

Ford Fellows have responded to this prompt: On Monday, January 16th, the nation celebrates Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, commemorating “the universal, unconditional love, forgiveness and nonviolence that empowered his revolutionary spirit.” How have Dr. King’s ideas and message shaped your own political thinking and how have they affected your life?

In his autobiography, Gerald Ford recalls his excitement at the prospect of going to the University of Michigan.

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.

A debate among scholars of our constitutional era concerns both the origins and background of the Constitution, and thus also America itself.

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.

Jefferson’s belief that democracy requires a “well-informed” citizenry has been so oft-repeated that it is almost a cliché.

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

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.

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.

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.