Historically, the legal order of England prioritized prudence and gradualism over fanaticism and ideology.

A symposium on Daniel J. Mahoney's The Statesman as Thinker.

If we are to see great statesmen again, it will require a generational effort—one that must take place largely in civil society and the home.

Daniel Mahoney's new book shows how a true statesman shepherds his people through the maelstrom of political passion.

The word “statesmanship” doesn’t leap to mind these days when we think of places like Washington D.C., Jerusalem, Brussels, London, Paris, or Berlin.

How do we ascend from our "culture of repudiation” to the kind of great statesmen that Mahoney profiles in his book?

Punishment should not be personal therapy for murderers and rapists.

Tocqueville operated in a European world saturated with Spinoza’s philosophy. But he searched for a new way to reconcile faith with liberalism.

A sortition approach to Supreme Court selection could revitalize the Constitution’s separation of powers.

J.R.R. Tolkien understood, as many social activists do not, that mercy and forgiveness are essential for human life.