Commencement Addresses and Virtue
By my calculations I have attended over 40 graduation ceremonies.
Lost Symbols and the Fraying of Our National Fabric
Once a fabric begins to fray, the continuing unraveling of the garment is almost inevitable.
The Civic Virtue of Sports
This college football season is probably the last one where geography still matters in the organization of the sport.
Franklin and Croly on Human Nature
In many ways, political differences can be boiled down to one simple question: what is your view of human nature?
Reflections on Family Gatherings
Thanksgiving, now past, and Christmas and New Year’s, now near at hand, bring with them the prospects of family gatherings.
Proclamation 4405—Thanksgiving Day, 1975
Two hundred years ago the frontier colonies of America braced for a long and determined conflict with the strongest military power in the world.
Thanksgiving Proclamation of 1789
With this Address President Washington officially began the tradition we celebrate today.
Thoughts On Giving Thanks
On this day of thanksgiving, it seems worth our time to reflect on the virtue of gratitude.
Thinking About Equity
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.
We’ll Always Have Casablanca
“This is the way they say you should take part in warfare and battle, Socrates,” says Callicles at the start of the dialogue Gorgias.
Citizens of the Things at Hand
Is it permissible on a website devoted to the legacy of President Gerald R. Ford to admit a strong revulsion to presidential elections?
Should We Trust in Numbers?
The fundamental thing about any technology is that it alters our relationship to the world.
“4.5 Acres of Sovereign Territory Anywhere in the World:” The USS Gerald R. Ford
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.
How Separate are Church and State?
Americans like to think they have solved the problem of the relationship between political life and religious life.
Worcestriensis Sauce
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.
Dirty Hands Part 3
The problem of “Dirty Hands” becomes especially acute in the Christian era.
Humility, Home, and History
The study of history – American history in particular – has become poisoned by hopelessness in our postmodern era.
Kirk's Founders and the unWritten Constitution
2023 is the 70th year since Regnery Publishing brought Russell Kirk's The Conservative Mind to the reading public.
Dirty Hands Part 2
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.
What is Liberalism?
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.