Recently, the world quietly admitted what many Americans already knew: President Donald J. Trump's foreign policy was not ...

The cause-to-effect view, as Plato noted, involves noting that for every effect — such as existence itself — there is a ...

Youth voting rights were part of the post-war expansion of democratic inclusion and were realized most notably through the ...

Twenty-four years after 9/11, New York City elected a 34-year-old whose biography reads like a Marxist coming-of-age novel ...

Walt Boyer writes that young people are easily manipulated into supporting socialism because they are "rich in compassion but poor in experience." ...

Alejandro saved his money to buy a double-wide trailer with new appliances with cash. He hired me because he claimed that, when his trailer was delivered, it was single wide with used appliances and ...

Idealism seems to piss people off. The old half/empty, half/full glass of water debate. Are things getting better or worse? Are people inherently good or selfish? Are all politicians crooked…“Ah, they ...

Americans are raised to revere idealism, the civic religion of contemporary democracy. If patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, idealism may be the first. Permitting presidents to anoint ...

Just because a legislator doesn’t always vote like I would doesn’t make him or her a bad legislator. Sometimes I differ with my representatives, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they should be ...