Four hundred years after the battles of Lepanto on October 7, 1571, and Vienna on September 11-12, 1683, these dates still rankle in the jihadist mind. For it was through these battles that the navies and armies of the West threw back almost fatal attacks on their civilization. In 1571,...

George Mason's Virginia Declaration of Rights, Jefferson's Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom, and Madison's Memorial and Remonstrance owe their derivation to a Jewish and Christian worldview.

Democracy is the new name for personal dignity and for peace.

Neither democracy nor capitalism provides much in the way of pure, idealized outcomes, romance, poetry, or myth.

Review of Charles E. Lindblom's The Market System: What It Is, How It Works, What To Make Of It and Thomas Sowell's Basic Economics: A Citizen"s Guide to the Economy.

Atheists who think that believers are simple have a simplistic understanding of belief.

The Iraq war, widely said to have discredited the basic tenets of the neoconservative school of thought, has in fact vindicated them.

We need to understand more clearly thatour accomplishments and virtues have their source in the institutions designed by our Founding Fathers.