Data shows that a bevy of Scottish thinkers were the first to bestow a political meaning to the word “liberal.”

My Early Life seeks to form souls that belong in "the family of the lion, or the tribe of the eagle."

In retrospect, perhaps it was a mistake to invite elites to "preach what they practice."

Healthy markets are like gardens, which policymakers should permit to grow.

Commentary on America’s 40th president often misses how the Gipper blended principles and pragmatism for a truly conservative statesmanship.

It’s unlikely that Americans will be going separate ways, but they are certainly worlds apart.

Americans imagine that inside every Chinese person is an American struggling to get out. But China defies Western categories.

Figures on the right and left alike may dismiss Milton Friedman, but his ideas about the free market are still a roadmap to a thriving economy.

The marketplace of ideas is clearly preferable to indoctrination, but Socrates, the exemplar for liberal educators, did something quite different.

Wendell Berry's Hannah Coulter cautions against the desire for a different life.

The New World movingly reconciles conservative defenses of America’s history with liberal critiques of our past guilt.

The national debt is becoming a national emergency—but there are some steps the new government can take to start fixing it.

There is something eerily manipulative about someone who people turn to for entertainment speaking as an authority on political matters.

National Treasure may seem cheesy and even a bit absurd, but beneath the surface it has a valuable message about the meaning of patriotism.