The oath that I have taken is the same oath that was taken by George Washington and by every President under the Constitution.

In his 1979 autobiography, “A Time to Heal,” President Ford mentioned former President Woodrow Wilson.

The recent COVID-19 pandemic has not generated the kind of self-critical examination that we need to undertake if we are to avoid repeating mistakes in the future.

Some years ago I attended a conference that brought together political practitioners and academics to see what we could learn from one another’s work.

In the 1980s, kudos were given to Ronald Reagan for introducing Star Wars technology that shielded America from nuclear attack and forced an expensive Soviet response.

A recent essay over at Quillette observed that "The near assassination of Donald Trump was a brazen attack on democracy."

It is the fatal habit of college professors to seek out and try to exploit “teachable moments”

No single American Founder lived to be so badly burned by the work of his own hands as John Adams.

Tolkien’s timeless epic, The Lord of the Rings, is one of the bestselling books of all time and Peter Jackson’s three-part film adaptation of Tolkien’s classic is one of the highest grossing movies of all time.

Our policy for this “forum” is to avoid culture war issues, partisanship, and ripped-from-the-headlines breathless reporting.

A 25-year-old Japanese American girl from Los Angeles, with a talented voice for broadcasting on the radio.

As we head deeper into this troublesome election season, we can’t help but notice the paradox that voters are discontented with the two candidates for president that they themselves have chosen.

Most Americans know the mythology of the American Founding—its key events, characters, and narrative arc.

“Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” The substitution of “the pursuit of happiness” for “property” in this famous triumvirate may be simultaneously the most inspiring and most troubling rhetorical move in American history.

This week’s Heritage Essay is a little longer than usual, mostly because of the length of the speech excerpted, but also because of the importance of the topic and the interesting way in which it is handled.

On Washington's birthday in 1861, a fortnight after six States had formed a confederacy of their own, Abraham Lincoln came here to Independence Hall knowing that in 10 days he would face the cruelest national crisis of our 85-year history.

Ours was a boxing household. As a boy growing up in the 1990’s, I may have read the majority of boxing magazines published in America between the years 1970 and 1995.

We’ve been writing a series of essays on the importance of symbols in political life, with a special focus on the flag as an avatar of the nation.

One of the more interesting developments of the last five years (or so) has been the creation of independent content delivery systems that allow authors to bypass corporate control of news and information.

Crisis at the border. You fear the other guy will win the November election.