by Pete O'Brien One of the strange things about evil people is that they often tell you what they intend to do well before they...

by Peter O'Brien In an early version of his 2nd Inaugural Address, Abraham Lincoln wrote of the Civil War that that: “…each party claims to...

One of the marvelous scenes in the movie Man For All Seasons has Thomas More talking to his friend the Duke of Norfolk, about More’s refusal to endorse the King’s divorce of Catherine, or his marriage to Anne Boleyn. In the dialogue that follows More comments on the English nobility’s apathy to their religion, but its fascination with the material world: 

When considering the future, I am a tireless defender of “guarded optimism. I firmly believe that the world of the next century will offer...

With very little fanfare, the first Muslim woman was sworn in as a judge of the 7th Municipal Civil Court District of East New...

It is customary for members of the Academy to display anti-American sentiment in the form of multi-culturalism. Rarely, however, does the critique involve the...

Thomas Jefferson in behalf of the Founding Fathers of the United States noted in the First Amendment – and therefore a thought that was...

Clandestine activity in the CIA is designed to promote U.S. interests abroad and on occasion undermining governments hostile to our interests and to the...

In an examination of contemporary society there is a philosophical contradiction that insinuates itself into every discussion. While modern liberalism as defined by, enlightenment philosophers,...

In 1787 a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinborough, Alexander Tyler, writing about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2000 years...

One might easily make the case that American institutions are unique.  From our Constitution to the protection of individual rights and private property, the...

The word “equality” is woven into the fabric of the nation. Despite the clause in the Declaration of Independence and Lincoln’s continual efforts to...