To Bigotry No Sanction

What George Washington’s promise to the Jews in Newport still means for America. I am not Jewish. Many of the people dearest to me are. Two of my most important intellectual mentors were Jewish; their teacher was Jewish. I have close friends and trusted business partners who are Jewish. So I do not regard the …

Read more

The Widening of the American Mind

The bell rings. Students settle into their seats with the practiced choreography of the modern classroom: a laptop flips open; a phone disappears—mostly—into a hoodie pocket; someone asks whether the assignment can be submitted as a link. Then the teacher writes a question on the board: What is justice? A few students stare as if …

Read more

The Highest Political Question

All questions of candidates, policies, and parties are secondary to the question of what kind of regime We The People will choose, accept, or have forced upon us. Questions about what our regime is, or what it will become, span generations. They are larger in scope than fleeting feelings about individual politicos or the headlines …

Read more