In our enthusiasm to declare our independence from England, we Americans often forget that the American Revolution is a development of English political history and not a rejection of it.

Professional golf may be the last sport to maintain a strong sense of manners.

That there are “forgotten Founders” is a truth universally acknowledged among students of the American Founding.

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.

For many college professors, especially in the humanities, reading books is more than a habit, it’s compulsory.

As modern Americans, a resistance to monarchy is more or less bred in our bones.

In this nearly ten-year old essay, the philosopher Paul Bloom makes an argument against empathy (he subsequently published a book by the same title, but I’ve not read it).

On the 50th anniversary of our Constitution, and at the unripened age of 28, Abraham Lincoln took the stage at the Young Men’s Lyceum in Springfield IL to address the topic “On the perpetuation of our political institutions.”

Colin Woodard in his Eleven Nations identified the deep regional differences that divide this country.

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

On September 17, 1787, the Constitutional Convention, after much discussion and deliberation, completed its work.

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.

No gravestone marks the place of Phillis Wheatley’s rest. Of course, this is not unusual.

Among the many temptations that undermine democratic citizenship, getting something for nothing would have to be near the top of the list.

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.