For all its weaknesses, Clash of Civilizations remains a text that can help us see the likely paths conflict will take in the 21st century.

Shep Melnick’s review of Crisis illustrates, alas, the wide and widening gulf between our two constitutions and between their partisans.

Whatever the “City on a Hill” is, the phrase was not discovered by Kennedy or Reagan

Despite his flaws, Rawls sheds light on the problem of pluralism and the profound challenges it poses to the stability of a liberal democratic regime.

Americans want to believe in the future, that getting ahead and opportunity are still fundamental to being American.

Amar shows why the Founding and the early republic deserve our continued respect.

Homelessness is a syndrome rather than a disease.

The causes of failure in America’s public education system are several and are widely known, but public school defenders refuse to take note of them.

Getting America’s own house in order is surely the sine qua non of any effort to deal with a resurgent and belligerent China.

We need leaders to not just run institutions well, but to run good institutions.