Civility is not simply about manners.

Drawing on President Bush's reform plan, which would allow citizens to transfer part of their Social Security contributions into personal accounts, an alteration of the current system is needed to make necessary change.

Iraqis have held elections and have recently put together their government, all encouraging developments.

The majority of U.S. high school students don't know within 50 years when the Civil War occurred.

I have a long-term interest in the humanities.

The arts and humanities are vastly more important in troubled times.

America somehow thinks that leadership relates to governance, and it certainly does. But society is much bigger than governance, and some of the truly great leadership of our society is outside the governance arena.