The failures of the two parties to achieve the dominant status their strategists hoped for and predicted has been due in large part to their basic character.

Many commentators have complained about the damage the president's proposed new budget would do to our national prosperity. Less has been said about the effect it will have on something far more important: our national character.

The most amazing thing about America has always been ourselves, as we are rediscovering in our exemplary response to the disaster of September 11th.

It's encouraging to have a presidential candidate who, alert to the dangers of "times of plenty," is concerned with maintaining the greatness of American character.

More than a century and a half ago, a young French jurist by the name of Alexis de Tocqueville came to America to study the future of the civilized world. With rare prescience, Tocqueville realized that America's revolutionary ideas were destined to dominate Western culture. He wanted his own...

This book takes a fresh look at Tocqueville's insights into our national psyche and asks whether Americans' national character has fallen into moral decay and religious indifference.

With the US closing its embassy in Syria, a Chinese and Russian veto of sanctions at the UN, and violence in the streets American leaders must consider what the US can and should do.

It is still common to believe that styles of music, and individual works of music, have--or can have-–a moral character and that the character of a work or style of music can "rub off" in some way on its devotees.