It is true that women were not in attendance at The Constitutional Convention, but that doesn’t mean they didn’t exercise some influence behind the scenes.

In recent years, we’ve heard a lot of talk about assaults on “our democracy” and about protecting “our democracy,” usually from people we might call “elites” in government and the news media.

Last week I mentioned that I would be commenting upon a recent David Brooks’ essay. 

In the middle decades of the 20^th century, there were topics that people just didn’t talk about in polite company.

By my calculations I have attended over 40 graduation ceremonies.

Once a fabric begins to fray, the continuing unraveling of the garment is almost inevitable.

This college football season is probably the last one where geography still matters in the organization of the sport.

In many ways, political differences can be boiled down to one simple question: what is your view of human nature?

Thanksgiving, now past, and Christmas and New Year’s, now near at hand, bring with them the prospects of family gatherings.

Two hundred years ago the frontier colonies of America braced for a long and determined conflict with the strongest military power in the world.

With this Address President Washington officially began the tradition we celebrate today.

On this day of thanksgiving, it seems worth our time to reflect on the virtue of gratitude.

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.