Washington — How did the weekend that commemorated the 20th anniversary of 9/11 — America’s Pearl Harbor for the 21st century — go for you? There were huge American flags draping the skyscrapers of northern Virginia. The streets below, however,…
The centerpiece of the recently defeated Senate Bill 1 was the nationalization of voting laws. It would have taken away from the states the right to govern their own elections, something they have enjoyed since the inception of American independence….
There will be other commemorations of Napoleon Bonaparte down the road, on the occasion of his 250th this or that, but it is worth remembering, as Americans, that it is not necessarily a sign of pathetic nostalgia for a people…
In 1804, Thomas Jefferson wrote to the Ursuline Sisters to reassure them that the U.S. government would not violate their religious freedom. Allaying fears they had conveyed in a letter to him, Jefferson wrote that the “principles of the constitution…
Love, wrote Wendell Berry, is what creates the world, and it is with love that we create whatever is good in our lives, as individuals and as the People of the United States. But because, as with all good things,…
Sacramento “All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle,” wrote the city of San Francisco’s namesake, St. Francis of Assisi. Catholics revere the Italian friar — canonized in 1228 — for his great love…
First Principles: What America’s Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country Thomas E. Ricks (Harper, 416 pages, $23) The next time I start a college, I’d like to hire Thomas E. Ricks as the…
As President John F. Kennedy implored of this country in 1961, “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country,” we find that while the Bill of Rights enshrined what the country…
Saturday Happy Rosh Hashanah. That’s the Jewish New Year. And for us Jews in America in 2020, it’s likely a miraculously happy new year. Usually, I awaken feeling insanely depressed and sad. It’s become standard for me. I worry about…
