Last week I mentioned that I would be commenting upon a recent David Brooks’ essay. 

Thanksgiving, now past, and Christmas and New Year’s, now near at hand, bring with them the prospects of family gatherings.

On this day of thanksgiving, it seems worth our time to reflect on the virtue of gratitude.

I recently asked a friend in our student life division if he had seen a picture showing three persons of differing heights standing behind a fence trying to watch a baseball game.

The fundamental thing about any technology is that it alters our relationship to the world.

Americans like to think they have solved the problem of the relationship between political life and religious life.

The problem of “Dirty Hands” becomes especially acute in the Christian era.

Last week we introduced readers to the political concept of “dirty hands,” by which we mean the use of ethically dubious means to achieve morally desirable ends.

In a democratic polity such as ours we have strange and frequently paradoxical expectations of our leaders.

Last week I wrote about the decline of friendship in America and mused on why that spelled trouble for civic life.

The tyrant’s dream is to separate people and then isolate them, making them easier to control.

Our Constitution promises to “secure the blessings of liberty” to “ourselves and our posterity.”

I’ll start with a claim that is both non-controversial and controversial: to be a conservative (of the sort I am) is to be skeptical of abstractions.

We may not live in “unprecedented” times — you’d need to have a narrow historical horizon to think so — but that hasn’t stopped us from profligate use of the modifier.

The idea of reflecting on a political order has an interesting history and generally occurs under two circumstances…

One of the ironies of our current political conversations is that many people have opinions about politics, but don’t necessarily have a clear understanding of what politics is.

Back in my school days when I was a philosophy major I would usually get the question “what could you possibly do with that degree?”

Political parties are a bedeviling feature of democratic politics.

Although Gerald Ford was a man of quiet faith, his Protestant upbringing informed his excellent character.

When people say they want freedom, always ask: Freedom to do what?