Congress’s most fundamental purpose is not to advance major legislation but to facilitate bargaining across factional lines.

The fall of the Roman Republic demonstrates that any free government depends on the rule of law for its survival.

A new biography shows the complexity and nobility of Sir Thomas More.

All men by nature desire to know.

Radical left-wing mayoral candidates are thriving on urban discontent—but their socialist tendencies don't fit metropolitan governance.

The gap between Silicon Valley’s aspirations and public trust may be widening, but a revival of humanistic virtue could bridge it.

By depicting freedom as an inner need for which the soul must struggle, Richard Wagner’s opera reveals what Romanticism and Christianity have in common.

In the Great War, half a million Brits died in the service of their country, with no known resting place.

There are downsides to slotting faith-based organizations into the NGO model.

Original Sin is a rare work of political non-fiction that will appeal to people across the partisan divide, though for different reasons.