As Sen. Marco Rubio prepared to announce his candidacy for the 2016 GOP nomination, this observer had more questions than answers. There is something about Marco Rubio’s tendency to engage in Fourth of July rhetoric that annoys me. Style seems…

A residue of Christianity remains in the American soul despite one hundred and fifty years of secularization and defines what America is. That may explain why a consensus among American voters is forming in support of intervention in Iraq and…