George Washington

June 14, 2019|Antonin Scalia, George Washington, James Madison, John Adams, Joseph Ellis, Robert Bork, Second Amendment, Thomas Jefferson

Joseph Ellis’s American Monologue

by Brian A. Smith|28 Comments

Junius Brutus Stearns, "Washington as Statesman at the Constitutional Convention," 1856 (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts).

In Joseph Ellis’ view, it’s just fine for us to love the Founders, but not for anyone to understand them in ways that might derail the march of progress.

February 26, 2019|Civic Virtue, Congress, George Washington, Separation of Powers, Supreme Court

The Supreme Court Will Not Save Us

by Corbin Barthold|17 Comments

Statue of George Washington at Federal Hall, New York, New York (Becca Eley / Shutterstock.com).

We, however, are determined to learn whether responsible and disciplined—in a word, constitutional—government can survive the death of civic piety.

February 4, 2019|Alexander Hamilton, American Revolution, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, honor

Honor, Sacred and Profane

by Lynn Uzzell|Leave a Comment

Craig Bruce Smith shows that honor was a vitally important concept for the development of the American nation.

December 17, 2018|Abraham Lincoln, Civil Religion, Cold War, Foreign Policy, George Washington, Iraq War, Progressivism, The Tragedy of U.S. Foreign Policy, Theodore Roosevelt

American Heresies and the Betrayal of the National Interest: A Conversation with Walter McDougall

by Walter A. McDougall|1 Comment

Walter McDougall discusses how America's civil religion has shaped our foreign policy.

November 15, 2018|Cohens vs. Virginia, Dartmouth College vs. Woodward, Fletcher vs. Peck, George Washington, John Marshall, Marbury vs. Madison

The John Marshall Legacy: A Conversation with Richard Brookhiser

by Richard Brookhiser|2 Comments

Richard Brookhiser discusses the life and jurisprudence of John Marshall.

September 14, 2018|Abortion, Brett Kavanaugh, Equality, George Washington, John Adams, Peter Singer, Roe v. Wade, Thomas Jefferson

Don’t Settle for Roe

by Richard Samuelson|24 Comments

Image: Coffeemill/Shutterstock.com

If Roe v. Wade is overturned, we will have to go back to the messy compromises of politics, which might actually avert a new disunion.

September 7, 2018|Charles Kesler, Claremont Review of Books, Donald Trump, George Washington, The Federalist

Trump and the Norm of Presidential Dignity

by Benjamin A. Kleinerman|26 Comments

President Donald Trump is applauded by sheriffs at the White House. (NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images)

If the captain of the ship is unstable, the boat starts rocking even in still waters.

August 10, 2018|Antonio Canova, Cincinnatus, Farewell Address, Frick Museum, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson

Canova’s Washington Reminds Us of the Universality of the Founding

by John O. McGinnis|11 Comments

Antonio Canova, Modello for George Washington, 1818. photo Fabio Zonta

For the first time in almost two hundred years, the greatest statue of George Washington can be viewed again in the United States.

April 3, 2018|Abraham Lincoln, American National Character, Civil Religion, Congress, George Washington, Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission

Cultivating Virtuous Citizenship?: A Law and Liberty Symposium on American National Character

by Rogers Smith, Rick Santorum, W. B. Allen, Philip A. Wallach, Colleen Sheehan, Steven McGuire|1 Comment

Cheryl Casey/Adobe Stock Images

Politics requires fit characters, but can virtue be restored as a basis for liberty? Four contributors address this problem.

April 3, 2018|American National Character Project, George Washington

Defining Freedom Up: National Character Revived

by W. B. Allen|6 Comments

Statue of George Washington, Trafalgar Square, London, UK (Tony Baggett/Shutterstock.com)

George Washington offers many lessons on how to understand the common good and living well together: it begins with character.

Policy Relevance and the Professoriate

by Andrew A. Szarejko

Policymakers must deal with the realities of coalition-building and pleasing one’s constituency, realities that academics may not fully grasp.

Józef Czapski: A Soldier and Artist Fights for Liberty

by Priscilla M. Jensen

Held as a POW by the Soviets in 1940, Czapski later worked to bring to light their murder of 22,000 of his fellow Polish officers in the Katyn Forest.

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