John C. Calhoun was intelligent, public-spirited, and forthright. But he lacked a virtue that his age and our own both desperately need—political humility.
A group of conservative intellectuals and opinion makers assess what has become of the West. The picture is not pretty.
Ideas such as covenant, crucible, and creed once promised to bind a fractured nation. They all failed. Is there any hope for a divided America?
Progressive historians struggle to explain how so many Americans could have voted for a man they believe to have been a racist. And they mean Ronald Reagan.
The Caesars hungered for spiritual achievements that merely institutional accomplishments could not satisfy, paving the way for Christianity.
Who promised freedom but delivered disaster? Boomers, says writer Helen Andrews. Her new book calls out five of the most celebrated, and egregious, examples.
Has the great cinematic storyteller Steven Spielberg forsaken the popular touch he once enjoyed for a more fashionable brand of liberal gloom?
Cats are never bored, content with their nature, and free from abstractions. They have much to teach humans.
When we think conscience, individual freedom, and moral duty, should we think modern political philosophy, or the Bible?
Some say the old-fashioned western, and western hero, has nothing to say to us anymore. The Library of America begs to differ.
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