Until a half century ago or so, there was a moral consensus, however fraying, that informed and shaped the exercise of freedom in the Western world. The self-determination of human beings, of citizens ...

As we celebrate our nation’s 237th birthday, a crucial facet of American life has all but vanished. We have forsaken, in any systematic and deliberate public manner, one of our most fundamental duties ...

The NY Daily News reports that there are a number of Queens residents perturbed that the Triumph of Civic Virtue statue was moved from its long time home near Borough Hall in Kew Gardens to the ...

Education is the soul of a nation made visible . If schools fail to shape character, nations fail to sustain democracy .

Seventh in a series regarding Panhandle values and quality of life. From a reflection almost two years ago, the following was noted: The Carson County Courthouse is the hub of Carson County in ...

Thanksgiving tradition of national gratitude runs deep in American spirit, yet schools increasingly skip teaching ...

I had the rare honor in September of welcoming a former president of the United States into my classroom. President George W. Bush surprised the students in my seminar, “Presidential Rhetoric and ...

Over the past several decades, deeply entrenched forces have brought ever-greater polarization, toxicity, and dysfunction into America’s civic life. Loud and angry voices have urged us to embrace a ...

Looks like the controversial statue, Triumph of Civic Virtue, is being shipped to Brooklyn, reports the Times Ledger. On November 13, the City Design Commission ruled to permanently relocate the ...

Whatever its other legacies may prove to be, classical liberalism—the public philosophy that organizes social relations around the principles of individualist market exchange—is looking more and more ...

Above is last week’s schedule—the ninth week of the fourth season of Manhattan’s Civic Repertory Theatre. It is a sample week in the current career of that theatre’s galvanic founder-directrix, ...