American identity, character, and civic life are shaped by many things, but decisive among them are our national memories—of our long history, our triumphs and tragedies, our national aspirations and achievements. Crucial to the national memory are the words our forebears wrote, to show us who we are and what we might yet become.

His stances for limited government and individual freedom make him the left's lightning rod and the tea party's intellectual godfather. And he is only halfway through the 40 years he may sit on the high court.

It is easy to predict that the Con-Con-Con effort will make little progress for an elusively simple reason: the basic condition that made the compromises of the 1787 convention possible do not exist today.

Clarence Thomas' memoir, My Grandfather's Son, portrays a man of understanding and humility.

Without the burden of chief justiceship, Justice Thomas can expose the stark and real policy choices being imposed by the Supreme Court on the nation.

Blacks and whites are at once optimistic and realistic.

Anne Applebaum reviews Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Infidel.

The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) has involved itself in Michigan senator Spencer Abraham’s bid for reelection with advertisements criticizing his pro-immigration stance.