If there is one thing educators can agree on, it's this: children do better in school when their parents get involved in their learning.

There is nothing more influential in a child's life than the moral power of quiet example. For children to take morality seriously they must see adults take morality seriously.

When we were attacked on Sept. 11, we knew the main reason for the attack was that Islamists hated our way of life, our virtues, our freedoms. What we never imagined was that the free press - an institution at the heart of those virtues and freedoms - would be among the first to surrender.

America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world.

If we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it.

In the battle for preserving sound social and moral norms, many religious institutions can no longer be counted as allies.

Have we come to the point where it is now considered a secular blasphemy to acknowledge the name of God at all?