The Hard Road of National Renewal

by George Weigel

We must treat each other as mutually responsible individuals, not as embodiments of racial or ideological categories. Continue Reading »

14 Oct 2020

Comfort and the Peanut

by Shalom Carmy

Our founding fathers are rarely praised as fountains of mirth. As a child, I read and reread The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln until the book disintegrated. Can you imagine such a volume for Washington or any of his confreres? Benjamin Franklin is the exception. He is remembered as the . . . . Continue Reading »

1 May 2019

American Dreaming

by James Nuechterlein

Americans have always thought of their country as other and better than anyplace else. The most obvious measure of comparative superiority was with Europe, the place where, through most of the nation’s history, most people came from and against which they assessed their achievements. The protean . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 2000