One of the things we’ve been very eager to pursue are partnerships with other publicly-minded organizations, particularly those who are addressing our democratic deficits.

Without question, the work of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil rights movement has impacted my entire life.

Donald Trump’s win in the Iowa caucus spurred a new round of commentary that Trump’s persistent and, to his critics, toxic presence in American politics portends a violence that could lead America into its next civil war.

In his debate with Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln asserted, "With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed."

One of my standard tropes in my teaching days was to caution students against succumbing to “the tyranny of the present.”

Jean de Crèvecœur was a French expatriate who settled in New York in 1759 after having fought in the French and Indian Wars.

In a country so dominated by popular culture, those getting older lose touch with the young.

Last week I offered up Part 1 of this two-part response to David Brooks’ Atlantic essay “How America Got Mean.”

C. S. Lewis’s introduction to a modern translation of St. Athanasius’s On the Incarnation offers an apologia for reading old books.

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.