From movement to epithet.

Historians have been too much the ideological allies of Progressivism to permit themselves to see its master flaw.

The Founders' thinking presupposed the Christian teaching of a fallen human nature.

The regime of modern liberty desperately needs old wisdom to avoid abandoning with contempt its own crucial preconditions.

There is just one rule for life and one antidote for chaos: common sense.

Aristotle's lessons about democracy are ancient but not superseded.

Revisiting Edmund Burke's brilliance and failure.

Neither Locke's Second Treatise nor the Declaration of Independence offers a complete key to grasping the scope of the American mind.

America's rhetoric problem reflects a wider cultural malaise.

If we avoid mining his plays for punditry and sloganeering, the Bard may help us find answers to our own questions.

Trying to reconcile Burke’s apparent inconsistencies, let alone trying to harmonize him with Lincoln on a theoretical level, is a mistaken enterprise.