Laws must be justified by something more than the will of the majority. They must rest on the eternal foundation of righteousness.

Our conscience, our faith, our local community, even our online hobby clubs - all civilize us.

Although unions may be good for a worker, singular, they are not always good for workers, plural. Especially when it comes to finding a job.

The difference between recession and depression is simple. Recession, goes the saying, is when you lose your job; depression is when I lose mine.

The lucky biographers find themselves drawn into a sort of friendship with their subject.

I'm not sure Roosevelt was quite a monster, he just did a poor job on the economics.

Today many politicians suggest that where the federal government does not act, there must be anarchy. That view is odd, blinkering out the work of state and towns, which until recently did much of our charitable and cultural work. That view also blinkers out the role of mutual societies and churches.