Among the issues that Donald Trump successfully campaigned on in 2024, the most influential one, along with putting a stop to rampant illegal immigration, was undoubtedly improving the American people’s standard of living, following  years of high inflation under the Biden administration.

Artificial Intelligence is both celebrated and feared. But what is it, and what does it portend? A brief reflection.

As spring finally and fitfully makes itself known here in God’s country, our author reflects on how the rhythm of language reflects the rhythm of the world. Why do beautiful things haunt us so?

It would be difficult to find a better personification of political imagination in the second half of the 20^th century than President Gerald R. Ford’s ambassador to Great Britain and Secretary of Commerce Elliot Richardson (1920-1999).

Politicians often operate with a different set of values and virtues than other people do, but must they be able to keep promises? Why is promise-keeping so important in political life?

Capture of the SS Mayaguez

On May 12, 1975, a military swift boat commanded by the Khmer Rouge captured the U.S. container ship Mayaguez off the Cambodian coast.

The 2014 documentary “The Last Days of Vietnam” puts viewers amid the chaos of the final days of the South Vietnamese government and the fall of Saigon in 1975. News footage of North Vietnam’s assault on Saigon and the heroic response of U.S. military and embassy officials to evacuate South Vietnamese gives a realistic view of Black April, as the South Vietnamese refer to the collapse of their country.

Many Americans of Generation X and older will recall the red, white, and blue American Freedom Train that was a centerpiece of America’s glorious Bicentennial celebration.

The commentary on Pope Francis’s passing indicates the extent to which the Catholic Church retains some cultural authority.

Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 president election outraged Democrats and delighted Republicans.

Carl Schmitt, a German writer and thinker who achieved some notoriety after he joined the Nazi party, wrote his most important works in the decade prior to Hitler’s rise to power.

In 1955, Rudolph Flesch released what ought to have been the definitive book on reading education: Why Johnny Can't Read—And What You Can Do About It.

In Federalist No. 1, Alexander Hamilton claimed that the Americans had to determine once and for all whether the formation of political institutions could result from reflection and choice or would forever be subject to fate and chance.

The New York Times’s “1619 Project” renewed debates over the nature of America’s “founding.”

Fifty years ago, in February 1975, U.S. President Gerald Ford made a statement. He did so not primarily through words but in action, swearing in his nominee for the office of U.S. Attorney General.

I’ve heard it said that the price of liberty is eternal vigilance. I’ve also heard that people these days are pretty stressed out, and I have to wonder if that’s because we’re all being so damned vigilant.

A list of Presidents with Congressional, Military or Law experience and a breakdown of who had family ties to the White House, and more.

How President Ford’s track record reflects Civil War history.

Armed conflicts around the world generate large numbers of refugees.

It has been 25 years since the death of Elliot Richardson (1920-1999), ambassador to Great Britain and Secretary of Commerce under President Gerald R. Ford.