The Founders’ constitutional morality demands more than mechanical checks and balances. Editor’s note: This article is a revised version of a lecture delivered at Hillsdale College’s Washington, DC, ...

It is still possible to tune out the endless broadcast. When he was four years old, my middle son taught himself to read. It was pandemic shutdown spring, so I was too busy homeschooling my oldest son ...

Campus free speech sees little improvement in FIRE’s annual report. In a world in which grade inflation is rampant on college and university campuses, it is more than a little amusing to see that the ...

Collectively, Main Street Millionaires possess more than thirteen times the wealth of the Forbes 400. The Everywhere Millionaire may sound confusingly familiar to readers of Thomas J. Stanley and ...

The state should try to give citizens an "equal opportunity" to live in neighborhoods free of violent crime. Every child has a right to grow up without fear of gunshots at their door. This may be one ...

A new intellectual history of liberalism lays bare the ideology’s theological foundations. Which story we tell about liberalism is a fraught and consequential choice. A common version, peddled by ...

There are few things politicians hate more than insignificance. Perhaps it is a reflection on the narrowness of my acquaintanceship that I know no one who fails to understand that government ...

The backlash against education technology looks a mile wide but may be only an inch deep. Education is in the throes of a well-deserved “techlash.” That much is clear. Less clear is whether the public ...

The Constitution’s meaning does not run out merely because the evidence is contested. Originalism today is predominant yet divided. Courts regularly invoke original meaning, but originalist scholars ...

Two recent decisions show Chief Justice Roberts’s institutionalism can sometimes be more like illusionism. Chief Justice John Roberts’s twentieth year on the Supreme Court demonstrates the ...

Faulkner provides a grave Augustinian understanding of the human capacity for self-delusion and self-aggrandizement. In his book By the Dawn’s Early Light, Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts ...