Recently historians from many nations commemorated the birth 150 years ago of one of the most remarkable political figures in modern times.

Debates over the Constitution always involved the balance between granting a power and limiting it.

All politics is an expression of the meaning and purpose of human life in society, and it is necessary to clarify what this expression of meaning and purpose is, both what contemporary forms of politics assume social life to be, and what in reality human society should look like or aspire to.

Since presidential pardons are very much in the news right now we thought it would be a good idea to provide the public with a primer on the power and its limitations.

Not long before his own death, President Ford called his good friend President Carter and asked if he would deliver a eulogy at Ford’s funeral. Carter agreed so long as Ford returned the favor.

The most dangerous people in the world are those with no sense of humor.

Hamilton’s extended meditation on the importance of a federal army continued in Federalist #28, the penultimate essay on the topic.

The debates concerning a standing army take an interesting turn in Federalist #27.

Longevity is no particular virtue, although healthy habits enhance its prospect.

The bachannalian and overcommercialized celebration of the New Year with the attendant resolutions to make ourselves better people in the coming year stands somewhere between comedy and farce.

If you had asked educated Americans during the Constitutional period when America was “founded,” they likely would have answered “1688.”

Far be it from me or anyone else during these twelve days of Christmas to put the kibosh on conviviality.

Given her painful loss to Donald Trump, surely the most unfortunate of Kamala Harris’ verbal tics was her frequent celebration of “what can be, unburdened by what has been.”

The root story of our United States is not inscribed by the ink of institutions but by the bold strokes of individuals who dared to dream of a better tomorrow.

Last week, in discussing Federalist #24, I rehearsed in some detail some of the antifederalist arguments concerning a standing army, the main subject of Hamilton’s essays 24-29.

MERRY CHRISTMAS! These two words conjure up all of the good feelings that mankind has ever held for itself and its creator: reverence, tenderness, humility, generosity, tolerance--love.

1. Q: Ford was the only US President born in what US city, and what name appeared on his birth certificate?

College students today – even students at elite colleges such as the Ivy Leagues – are not equipped to read full books, as Rose Horowitch’s recent Atlantic essay “The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books” revealed.

The next six Federalist essays (24-29), all written by Hamilton, deal with one of the most controversial powers in the Constitution: the ability to create a standing army, which, the critics claimed, posed an essential and enduring threat to liberty.

Legend has it that a crowd had gathered outside Independence Hall in Philadelphia as the deliberations of the Constitutional Convention were concluding in 1787.