If nuclear weapons are used, we are not automatically condemned to visions of spiraling disaster.
Brian A. Smith
Israel's leaders must seek out a path to peace that secures their nation's future—and face up to the competing evils before them.
Henry Kissinger's latest book offers insights into the vision and prudence needed to lead well.
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.
A new history ponders the Founders’ conception of human nature and why the nation's faith in democracy is misplaced.
We must reckon with the idea that neither the broken remnants of a woke covenant nor a hollow appeal to American civil religion will save us.
In Art and Faith, Makoto Fujimura considers how creativity offers a path out of our culture's destructive tendencies toward pragmatism.
Christians owe respect to both their civil and ecclesiastical governments, but our deference to authority has gone too far.
Identity politics unwittingly prepares the way for a resurgence of fully pagan thought.
To demand that rest and power coexist reflects an act of will, not reason, and a love of power that demands totalizing control over human life.
We ought to read The Dispossessed to appreciate complexity—and the imperfection of our theories in the face of life’s messy reality.
To grapple with the highs and the lows of the human condition requires we reunite body and soul—to reknit what Descartes torn asunder.
Some on the Left are beginning to see the diminishing returns to wokeness.
Americans take to the road because it turns out that Bruce Springsteen was on to something: democratic souls are born to run.
In Joseph Ellis’ view, it’s just fine for us to love the Founders, but not for anyone to understand them in ways that might derail the march of progress.
Reading The Law of Blood can help us understand the beliefs that animated National Socialism, and help us see what they were not.
The Democratic primary may well offer the most demanding test of virtue-signaling ever yet devised outside of Ivy League presidential searches.
Why is it that the English-speaking peoples historically combined a deep love of liberty with a passionate devotion to their political duties? Can it last?
If the Republican Party finds its way past the Trump-inflicted losses of November 6 and those to come, it will need new leaders.
Prudence sometimes dictates that we contemplate the unthinkable, if only to keep it at bay.
We should be mindful of what is lost when a politics of enmity becomes our way of life.
John Lewis Gaddis reminds us that best minds of the past can illuminate the perennial challenges of politics and grand strategy.
Peter Augustine Lawler died a year ago today: here are some tributes and our favorites among his essays for Law and Liberty.
Thirty-five years after its publication, Lost in the Cosmos still offers profound lessons in politics and living life well.
In leaving liberalism behind, is it possible integralists have failed to remember the benefits of toleration?
American politicians and strategists regularly fail to plan for restoring order after the fighting stops - Nadia Schadlow explains why.
In trying to offer relevance, universities have abandoned classical education and liberal learning - Tocqueville reminds us what we've lost in the process.
James Poulos' Art of Being Free is the kind of self-help book democratic souls really need.
Walker Percy is our most astute analyst of what ails the American soul.
Colleges are failing in civic education, in part because they don't know what to teach, or how.
