During the bleakest days of the Covid pandemic and the shutdowns, numerous voices exhorted us to practice kindness.

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.

We do violence to a work of art by using it for our own ends, especially for our own ideological or political ends, which are time-bound and probably transient at best.

America is facing demographic decline. Whether it rises to the level of a crisis is open to debate (although you can put me squarely in the “uh oh” camp, and not only because I’m in my 60’s and devoid of grandchildren, which, in historical terms, is an anomaly of a high order).

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

We’ve drawn the reader’s attention in a prior essay to Lincoln’s “Lyceum Address,” one of his more interesting speeches.

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

My freshman year in college a professor placed in my hands G.K. Chesterton’s book Orthodoxy, and my life was never the same after.

Our Heritage series typically focuses on American writers, but every now and then I am reminded of something from the non-American past that I think interesting.

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

Most of our readers will know about the Philadelphia Convention in the summer of 1787 and assume that it had to replace the ineffectual Articles of Confederation.

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.

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.