Traditionally, most American presidential elections are not determined by voter concerns about foreign policy and which candidate can better keep America safe. To the extent that voters cast their ballots based on candidate issue-positions, as opposed...
Every summer, my wife, Ruth, and I visit our son Shaya in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, where he lives with his wife and six children. For a Lubavitch Jew, which Shaya has been since college, Crown Heights is the center of the universe. It is the headquarters...
On most measures, the vast majority of Americans have seen their lives improve over the years. For example, in 1940, only about 40 percent of homes had central heating, 60 percent had flush indoor toilets, and 70 percent had running water, not to mention...
The next time I hear one of my students or anyone else demand “safe spaces” that spare them any discomfort from offensive or even contrary viewpoints of which they disapprove, I will think of the thousands of American and Allied soldiers who fought...
The U.S. Treasury recently announced a major makeover of our paper currency. Gone from the $20 bill is the visage of Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States, to be replaced by Harriet Tubman, the noted African-American “conductor”...
I teach international relations. Few fields have undergone more change over the past 25 years than the study of world politics. Humanity has gone from sheer euphoria one moment — on 11/9 (the fall of the Berlin Wall on Nov. 9, 1989, marking the end...
Another Academy Awards season is over. I am always struck by how the film industry has no shame. Dozens of Oscar presenters or award winners predictably trot onto the stage to utter liberal pieties about inequality, Wall Street greed and other sins of...
I recall long ago reading Louis Hartz’s classic 1955 work “The Liberal Tradition in America,” which argued that the United States has been blessed with a relatively consensus-based political culture grounded in the liberal democratic principles...
