When Nixon opened up relations with China, he hoped it would be a great leap forward. Instead, it has taken the world backward.

All politics is not local, but it should be.

The tiny scale of woke objectives is really the most sinister thing about them.

The world's central banks are possibly facing an insolvency of their own making.

The Stabat Mater, a medieval poem, teaches human beings how to suffer well.

The purpose of liberal education is to illuminate how one ought to use the liberty you possess properly.

Scent of a Woman presents the moral and manly education of Charlie Simms, who has been left fatherless by America.

The authority to proclaim a Thanksgiving might seem trivial to us.  But it is, in fact, fraught with meaning.

How many men guilty of sexual assault crimes should the legal system set free?

A mathematical understanding of Ranked Choice Voting reveals its theoretical and practical flaws.

The habits of mind created by a life in medicine have something to teach those who study humanities.

Twenty years ago, the United States conducted its first drone strike. War hasn't been the same since.

Should pregnant women be bribed to quit smoking?

Lincoln’s democratic mythology at Gettysburg gives us hope that our twenty-first century political circumstances can be overcome.