What unnerves us most about freedom is the same thing generations of scientists were unconsciously ignoring about the universe—its unpredictability and capacity for disorder. In the classroom, this ...

After 3 1/2 years of war, you might assume everyone in Ukraine right now is demoralized and hunkered down in bunkers, dreading the next drone attack from Russia. But that is not at all what Ukraine is ...

A dialogue on “Faith, Democracy and the Common Good” on March 18 at Georgetown University connected the thoughts one of the ...

Signs of public dissent have begun to grow in the United States from many different corners. People are mobilizing in the streets, in statehouses, in places of worship, and in town halls against ...

It may be hard for many New Yorkers to believe but in the recent election, Washington, D.C. offered an important lesson for New York in how to improve democracy. Think here not of the incoming Trump ...

He stands guard today atop a granite pedestal near a riverbank in Concord, Massachusetts – a stout, handsome farmer clutching a musket while scanning the horizon for the advancing enemy. He is the ...

Over the weekend, The Washington Post reported that an acolyte of Donald Trump is making big plans for a “post-Constitutional” government through a series of historic changes that would give the ...

After seven years, many set-backs, and too many dead, ex-President Bush seems to be winning his gamble, that freedom can come to Iraq. The price has been high, but not out of line with that paid by ...

Security fences stand near the U.S. Capitol on January 5, 2022. Drew Angerer/Getty Images Ken Hughes, University of Virginia Now that a full year has passed since the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the ...

“DEMOCRACY prevailed”, President-elect Joe Biden declared with a passion that he rarely displayed during the election season. It was the appropriate feeling. After a baseless and dangerous assault on ...