“Parliament” comes from the French and has a root meaning of talking. It is the body empowered to speak on…
Conservatives are interested in conserving things. The past has meaning in the present. Anti-conservative rhetoric often dismisses this interest by…
“You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone,” sang Joni Mitchell many a decade ago. It’s a very old…
Constitutions deal with the real world, which is never as simple as an attractive idea. But a constitution that is…
Now is the time of the biblical holiday of Shavu’ot, translated literally as the Holiday of Weeks, coming as it…
The premise behind our Constitution is that we humans are capable of governing ourselves. It is we, the people, who…
On April 5, President Trump issued a proclamation designating that day as Education Day, and calling to mind the life…
England in the 1640s was shaking apart along many fault lines. The royalists, known as the Cavaliers, fought with King…
