On April 5, President Trump issued a proclamation designating that day as Education Day, and calling to mind the life…
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In The Federalist, Alexander Hamilton devotes many consecutive articles to addressing the faults of the Articles of Confederation. Occasionally writing…
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I remember in rabbinic school one of the teachers, an acerbic and witty philosophy professor, dead-panned to the class, “I…
There are great events that test our civilization. In their stress, we see more clearly that in normal times the…
A deadly terror gripped more and more of the world, leaving death and dislocation in its wake. Even so, many…
My first familiarity with the words of the Book of Exodus, “Let My people go!” came from the African-American spiritual…
A Rock and Roll Hall of Fame guitarist who lives at the edge of Appalachia ends his every email with…
In the first year of Franklin Roosevelt’s presidency, in the depths of the Great Depression, the federal government asserted power…