The Founding Fathers worried that some common impulse of passion might lead many to subvert the rights of the few. It's a rational fear, one that is played out endlessly.

Common Core, the initiative that claims to more accurately measure K-12 student knowledge in English and math, also encourages children to step up their "critical thinking."

Washington has a mysterious power to turn perfectly reasonable, wholesome, well-meaning human beings into equivocating crooked gasbags.

In summation, like your beloved pet rock, Twitter is useful only in your imagination.

The realization that you can't predict the future -- and mold it -- could only come as a shock to an academic.

Throughout the Old Testament, God warns his chosen people about the perils of assimilation, shiksappeal and false gods.

Aside from the occasional genocide, oppression, evil and torture, etc., it is inarguable that public policy could be implemented more rapidly in an autocracy.