Many matters were debated at the Constitutional Convention, but the central issue involved the problem of political representation, which carries within itself one of the fundamental problems of social life: namely, the principal/agent problem.

Scholars have long debated the role of religion in the founding of America.

In 1790, two years before Mary Wollstonecraft published her Vindication of the Rights of Woman, an American woman with the pen name “Constantia” released her own treatise on the equality of the sexes.

In his autobiography, Gerald Ford recalls his excitement at the prospect of going to the University of Michigan.

A debate among scholars of our constitutional era concerns both the origins and background of the Constitution, and thus also America itself.

Jefferson’s belief that democracy requires a “well-informed” citizenry has been so oft-repeated that it is almost a cliché.

David French in this essay places alongside each other two contrasting thoughts of two contrasting thinkers—first friends, then enemies, then friends again—who were central figures in our nation’s early history.

Before my series of interviews with President Ford in 2005, I had read the 1976 Republican Party platform on which the incumbent ran and also his political autobiography…

After I listened to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s stirring address to the U.S. Congress on March 16, 2022, my mind jumped to the speech Gerald Ford delivered immediately after being sworn in as our 38th President.In his autobiography, Gerald Ford recalls his excitement at the prospect of going to the University of Michigan.

Mark Twain served up joke after joke when it came to one class of Americans in particular. See if you can figure it out.

Columnist George Will recently shared an insight that holds true across the continents, through the centuries, and in every -ocracy: beware the weak man's idea of a strong man.

At the Ford we have metrics to boast. Our DeVos Learning Center hosts some 10,000 K-12 children each year.

I am an Aristotelian when it comes to the pursuit of happiness.

Because he was a politician and not a philosopher, we tend to overlook a striking thing about Gerald Ford: he shows us a way to a good life.

"There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe."