Pursuing Happiness
Tracing the radically different conceptions of human flourishing that have been in contention over the past half-millennium can help us acquire self-knowledge.
Articles by Diana Schaub
The Cup of Sacrifice
The failed emancipator and the Great Emancipator.
The Figure in the Carpet
When reading, never give short shrift to the obvious.
George Washington Slept Here
Visiting the new Museum of the American Revolution.
Bad Company
The true meaning of friendship.
The Camera of Liberty
A new pictorial biography of Frederick Douglass.
Equality and Liberty
A review of Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality, by Danielle Allen.
A CRB Discussion of Abraham Lincoln and Moral Conflict
Lincoln for Liberals
A review of Lincoln's Tragic Pragmatism: Lincoln, Douglas, and Moral Conflict, by John Burt
Code of the Gentleman
A review of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, by Robert C. Bartlett and Susan D. Collins
Solve for X
Malcolm X’s strangely American life.
Unfriending Friendship
What we’ve lost in the age of Facebook.
The Spirit of the Laws
A review of Montesquieu and the Logic of Liberty, Soft Despotism, Democracy's Drift: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Tocqueville, and the Modern Prospect, by Paul A. Rahe
The Great Debate
Great political oratory depends on an occasion, as does great statesmanship itself.
The Greatness and Decline of American Oratory
The democratization of American political oratory.
Mystic Chords of Memory
The problem of misunderstanding Lincoln.
Man’s Field
Mansfield and Manliness.