I recently asked a friend in our student life division if he had seen a picture showing three persons of differing heights standing behind a fence trying to watch a baseball game.

“This is the way they say you should take part in warfare and battle, Socrates,” says Callicles at the start of the dialogue Gorgias.

Is it permissible on a website devoted to the legacy of President Gerald R. Ford to admit a strong revulsion to presidential elections?

The fundamental thing about any technology is that it alters our relationship to the world.

Over three football fields in length, almost one football field in width, twenty-five stories high, serving15,000 meals a day, and powered by two state-of-the-art A1B nuclear reactors, the gargantuan USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) is the largest warship in the world.

Americans like to think they have solved the problem of the relationship between political life and religious life.

Our reflection essay this week provides a brief overview of the complex nature of religion during the founding era and how it shaped our Constitutional order.

The problem of “Dirty Hands” becomes especially acute in the Christian era.

The study of history – American history in particular – has become poisoned by hopelessness in our postmodern era.

2023 is the 70th year since Regnery Publishing brought Russell Kirk's The Conservative Mind to the reading public. 

Last week we introduced readers to the political concept of “dirty hands,” by which we mean the use of ethically dubious means to achieve morally desirable ends.

Political terms don’t have fixed meanings. When I say I’m a conservative, I don’t mean by that what people typically mean when they use that word.

In a democratic polity such as ours we have strange and frequently paradoxical expectations of our leaders.

This is the fifth article in a series about the Electoral College that I think a lot of Americans want to know the answers to.

This summer, when the US and its NATO allies wanted to demonstrate their solidarity in opposing the Russian invasion of Ukraine, they sent their greatest single weapon to the eastern Mediterranean– Gerald R. Ford. 

Perhaps no other thinker is so ardently claimed by both conservatives and liberals as Alexis De Tocqueville.

This is the fourth installment of a series of articles on the Electoral College and our presidential election system.

Last week I wrote about the decline of friendship in America and mused on why that spelled trouble for civic life.

The tyrant’s dream is to separate people and then isolate them, making them easier to control.

I expect most people agree that by making too much of a thing we can easily make too little of it—and also that as far as platitudes go that’s a fairly solid one.