Last week, Thomas B. Edsall posted an intriguing article entitled “Our Broken Social Contract” to the NY Times “Opinionator” blog. He started with a basic theme: “Many Americans think that their country has lost its way. But when they try to make se… more »

The unique structure of our republican form of government, with its bicameral legislature and three checked and balanced branches, tendered carefully to posterity by the founders after great debates, has matured into a sclerosal conglomeration of… more »

I have been very impressed by a group of young people whose work gives me hope for our society's future. They are a varied group of journalists, commentators, and public intellectuals who represent a spectrum of political philosophy but share the valuab… more »

In his 1963 Pulitzer Prize-winning opus, Anti Intellectualism in American Life, historian Richard Hofstadter charted the cultural history of America’s peculiar rejection of the intellectual in America society from the colonial era through the mid-20th C… more »