The past few years haven't been kind to foreign policy idealism--the belief that when authoritarian states mistreat their own people, it is a matter of concern for all of us. We idealists can largely ...

Americans are sickened of an “idealism that is oblique, confusing, dishonest, and ferocious,” as H.L. Mencken wrote a hundred years ago. Though Mencken was condemning President Woodrow Wilson, the ...

Many capable youths chase high pay, influenced by peers, families and looming debt, instead of teaching or advocating for ...

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 ...

The votes have been cast, and a vaccine is on the horizon. We now find ourselves in the twilight days of Donald Trump’s presidency and perhaps “the end of the beginning” or maybe even “the beginning ...

The apartment where I work overlooks a small, alternative high school in Boulder, Colorado. I look out onto the football field and see a young woman flip her hair to the side. Even her roots shine.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spent a recent Wednesday showered in praise from the vice president and health technology CEOs at a ...

The publishing world's notable releases this year included a new “Hunger Games” novel and a book by Thomas Pynchon.

Philippine Army (PA) commander Lt. Gen. Antonio Nafarrete has directed all 340 incoming platoon leaders to maintain their ...

Let’s imagine that the American Jewish community wanted to build a statue for the ‘greatest’ American Jew. For whom would it erect that statue? Probably the leading candidate would be Supreme Court ...