Each year, immediately following Christmas and continuing into the first week of January, we are inundated with articles and posts about new year’s resolutions. How to make them? How to stick to them? Are they helpful? …

There aren’t many days that I don’t think about fatherhood. It’s simply impossible for me to be in the presence of any of my children without the conscious awareness that I am their father and all that comes with that. I think about what it means to me to be…

I recently reconnected with an old friend, a friend I had not seen in nearly 30 years, but one who had once been among my closest. Brad was one of the first close friends I made on my own in those first few fleeting and transitory years after college. He…

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command The air-bridged harbor that twin…

Conventional wisdom is that Americans are flocking to the South and West, fleeing failed Democratic policies in New York, California, New England, and elsewhere leading to higher costs, higher crime, and slower growth. The obvious conclusion is that Americans favor policies of smaller government, less regulation, and lower taxes. …

My first college tour was with my eldest son. In 1982, my own college search was conducted primarily out of Barron’s guide to colleges. That’s how I found Williams College, a tiny liberal arts college in the sleepy northwestern corner of Massachusetts. I’d never known anyone to go there, and…

There are so many really big challenges facing us every day — pandemic, climate, abortion, poverty, politics, and guns — that it’s easy to be overwhelmed. It’s easy to be consumed by a sense of powerlessness and futility. It’s easy to want to give up. Last weekend, we attended a…

I am not a constitutional scholar. I am not even a lawyer. But as I read the draft majority Opinion of the Court in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, penned by Justice Alito, even I can see that, if this draft stands, a woman’s decision whether…

It’s frankly almost impossible today to imagine the hope and optimism that must have existed in the aftermath of the Second World War for the leaders of the world to have come together to create the United Nations. …