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.