The Revolution’s greatest inheritance was not its victory but its warning, that liberty requires constant rebellion against...
Current Events
History often turns not on the power of leaders but on the persistence of ordinary people who...
The growing global perception of the U.S. as an arms broker rather than a stabilizing power undermines...
Trump’s order to resume nuclear weapons testing marks more than a policy shift; it signals a return...
This moment will be remembered less for the policy dispute that sparked it than for what it...
The shutdown has exposed the extent to which cruelty and spectacle have replaced responsibility as the engines...
Stone cannot conceal truth forever. Time has a way of turning monuments into mirrors, reflecting the morality...
America is borne back ceaselessly not to the past, but to the same unlearned lesson: that wealth...
The post-truth crisis is ultimately a test of civic character. A republic cannot survive if its citizens...
The challenge posed by MAGA is not only to logic but to conscience. If the movement has...
Americans must relearn the discipline of context. That means demanding data alongside stories, patterns alongside pathos. It...
In the end, the way forward is neither nostalgia for the Enlightenment nor surrender to irrationality. It...
If the disease of freedom fatigue is cyclical, then its cure must be generational. History warns that...
The old Iron Curtain was meant to keep people in and ideas out. The new one does...
If a democratic political following begins to behave like a religious one, then the boundaries of power...
Every democracy is sustained by a simple covenant: that truth, however inconvenient, must remain public property. The...
Each public feud, leaked chat, or ideological split chips away at the image of a seamless populist...
Political fatigue can be a door cracked open, but what comes through it depends on honesty. The...
Politically, the administration faces a choice: confrontation or conversation. Thus far, President Trump has opted for the...
If October 18 proved anything, it is that the fight for democracy isn’t only fought in elections...
Whether the American experiment survives this chapter will depend on who the nation decides to be: spectators...
History offers no shortage of warnings about how democracies decay: not through sudden coups, but through the...
The struggle against authoritarianism is not confined to rallies, hashtags, or elections. It is also waged quietly...
Every generation of Americans inherits the same unfinished task, to decide whether liberty is a living principle...
The ceasefire may indeed hold, and if it does, lives will be spared. But the cost of...
As the dust settles, one truth becomes unavoidable. No people can live forever under siege, and no...
If the founders feared the standing army, it was because they understood its symbolic power: the quiet...
The Trump administration’s use of the Department of Justice as a political cudgel is no longer theoretical;...
Stephen Miller’s two-second hesitation on live television might have seemed trivial. But in the context of a...
Whether this period becomes a turning point toward renewed civic discipline or a slide into chronic confrontation...