Recent times have been tough for Boy Scouts of America.  Although still one of the largest youth organizations in the US, its ranks have dwindled from about 3 million in the 1970s to fewer than 800,000 today

It is a fantasy of the industrial episode—that brief blip in human history that began with the Industrial Revolution but is now showing signs of congestive heart failure, complete with the attendant edema below the knees—that infinite desires can be satisfied indefinitely in a finite space.

The coarsening of public discourse has brought attention about the need to back civility back into the culture.

Executive privilege is the constitutional principle that permits the president and high-level executive branch officers to withhold information from Congress, the courts, and ultimately the public.

Here we go again. The presidential primaries are upon us.

It would not be difficult to make the case that Gerald Ford was the greatest athlete ever to serve as President of the United States.

In his Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle defines virtue as the mean between the extremes. While few people confuse courage with its lack (cowardice), there are many who might confuse it with its excess (bravado or cockiness).

Without question, the work of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil rights movement has impacted my entire life.

In a country so dominated by popular culture, those getting older lose touch with the young.

C. S. Lewis’s introduction to a modern translation of St. Athanasius’s On the Incarnation offers an apologia for reading old books.

In the middle decades of the 20^th century, there were topics that people just didn’t talk about in polite company.

This college football season is probably the last one where geography still matters in the organization of the sport.

“This is the way they say you should take part in warfare and battle, Socrates,” says Callicles at the start of the dialogue Gorgias.

Is it permissible on a website devoted to the legacy of President Gerald R. Ford to admit a strong revulsion to presidential elections?

Over three football fields in length, almost one football field in width, twenty-five stories high, serving15,000 meals a day, and powered by two state-of-the-art A1B nuclear reactors, the gargantuan USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) is the largest warship in the world.

The study of history – American history in particular – has become poisoned by hopelessness in our postmodern era.

Political terms don’t have fixed meanings. When I say I’m a conservative, I don’t mean by that what people typically mean when they use that word.

This summer, when the US and its NATO allies wanted to demonstrate their solidarity in opposing the Russian invasion of Ukraine, they sent their greatest single weapon to the eastern Mediterranean– Gerald R. Ford. 

Perhaps no other thinker is so ardently claimed by both conservatives and liberals as Alexis De Tocqueville.

I expect most people agree that by making too much of a thing we can easily make too little of it—and also that as far as platitudes go that’s a fairly solid one.