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.

Contemporary debates about “disinformation” point back to a fundamental tension in Enlightenment philosophy.

School choice could be the centrist version of reparations.

Can state legislatures save higher education?

Using legislative mandates in education risks the same mistake as progressives who would fold all of human experience into the purview of the state.