Our series of reflection essays are less intended to inform than to spur thinking.

Hamilton concluded his meditations on taxation by introducing two ideas that gained little traction at the time but would down the road.

I’ll confess that in my youth I was often regarded as mischievous, a moniker I’ve never fully outgrown and one in which I take some perverse delight.

One of the most mistaken beliefs in our culture is the idea that technology is neutral in its application.

As his life neared its end, the genteel David McCullough gave a gift to the American people.

An essay I wrote on justice recently appeared in the journal Religion and Liberty.

After some time in the academy, I started obsessing about how certain words were being used.

Artificial Intelligence is in the news with a vengeance as ChatGTP released a new version of “chatbot.”

Readers may not be aware of it, but there is a significant academic debate going on about liberalism in general, and “Lockean liberalism” in particular.

In their recent book on The Black Intellectual Tradition: Reading Freedom in Classical Literature, Angel Adams Parham and Annika Prather argue that black emancipation and advancement have occurred when blacks have embraced the substance of the Western intellectual tradition

Winston Churchill once remarked that we make our buildings, and then our buildings in turn make us. One difference between good design and bad design is that the former puts us at ease without our even realizing it, while the latter can cause psychic distress.

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.

I’m always interested when writers make some sort of assertion about the biological bases of moral judgments.

Politics, Aristotle wrote, is a mode of civic friendship; or, at the very least, a good polity is marked by high levels of civic friendship.

Among President Ford’s virtues was his well-known penchant for hard work.