While the ideals on which our civilization was built are being trashed at home, pro-democracy protesters against the Chinese Communist Party fight for them.

‘The third great title-deed’ of freedom, he called it. American exceptionalism drew its moral strength from British exceptionalism.

The government’s response to the pandemic should give conservative advocates of a more powerful state pause.

Today, in the throes of the coronavirus pandemic, the dominant theme is saving lives, regardless of the economic cost.

Pity the heart that could not be moved and lifted by it.

Donald Trump wasn’t the first president to misunderestimate a national threat. Franklin Roosevelt played his part in the collective denial and dishonesty of the age—until the “ideology of fascism” contagion came knocking.

The rule of law cannot be counted on to protect the rights of minorities and political dissenters. The result—as John Locke predicted—is social unrest and revolution.

While the author of “The Hobbit” disliked allegory, his great thematic preoccupation with the struggle between good and evil remains as relevant as ever.

Shortly after the storming of the Bastille prison in Paris on July 14, 1789, the English political theorist Edmund Burke wrote a letter to Lord Charlemont, the first president of the Royal Irish Academy.

For all of its contradictions and injustices, the 20th century American melting pot transformed millions of immigrants into productive citizens.