In 1804, Thomas Jefferson wrote to the Ursuline Sisters to reassure them that the U.S. government would not violate their…
Love, wrote Wendell Berry, is what creates the world, and it is with love that we create whatever is good…
Sacramento “All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle,” wrote the city of San…
First Principles: What America’s Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country Thomas E. Ricks…
As President John F. Kennedy implored of this country in 1961, “Ask not what your country can do for you,…
Saturday Happy Rosh Hashanah. That’s the Jewish New Year. And for us Jews in America in 2020, it’s likely a…
As the saying goes, “Be careful what you wish for.” For the past several weeks, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and…
I’m committing a bit of an analytical sin in this column, for which I’ll apologize. That sin being, of course,…
Presidential elections are typically contests between politicians with unambiguously positive views of the United States and competing ideas about how…