Development policy needs a sturdier foundation than GDP growth. What should the principles of development policy be? In light of the often-dark history of Western attempts to develop other parts of ...

The Northwest Passage promised prosperity; now it’s the newest theatre of increasingly tense geopolitics. Since the end of the fifteenth century, seafaring explorers have searched for a westward route ...

The Founders’ constitutional morality demands more than mechanical checks and balances. Editor’s note: This article is a revised version of a lecture delivered at Hillsdale College’s Washington, DC, ...

A forgotten monument in Budapest reveals truths about immigration, assimilation, and civic gratitude. When Americans think of monuments to George Washington in Europe, Paris usually comes to mind: ...

It is still possible to tune out the endless broadcast. When he was four years old, my middle son taught himself to read. It was pandemic shutdown spring, so I was too busy homeschooling my oldest son ...

When Frederick Douglass began to appreciate the Constitution, it was a turning point in the drama of emancipation. Frederick Douglass didn’t just ask Americans to honor their Constitution. He demanded ...

Bourgeois norms such as work ethic, stability, frugality, and ingenuity can actually make you quite rich. Americans have a lot of misconceptions about the rich. This becomes clear when you read The ...

The state should try to give citizens an "equal opportunity" to live in neighborhoods free of violent crime. Every child has a right to grow up without fear of gunshots at their door. This may be one ...

A new intellectual history of liberalism lays bare the ideology’s theological foundations. Which story we tell about liberalism is a fraught and consequential choice. A common version, peddled by ...

Gorsuch’s concurrence in Trump v. Slaughter may hold the key to the future of separation of powers jurisprudence. In Trump v. Slaughter, Justice Neil Gorsuch voted with the majority to rule that since ...

The Constitution’s meaning does not run out merely because the evidence is contested. Originalism today is predominant yet divided. Courts regularly invoke original meaning, but originalist scholars ...

Two recent decisions show Chief Justice Roberts’s institutionalism can sometimes be more like illusionism. Chief Justice John Roberts’s twentieth year on the Supreme Court demonstrates the ...