Cultural diplomacy and an awareness of how American culture impacts othersare crucial, as it is mainly through culture that one group of people judges the humanity of another.

Martha Bayles of Boston College and The Weekly Standard delivered the December Bradley Lecture.

“Americans have no culture.” In most of the world, this statement raises neither eyebrows nor objections: people simply assume that violent, vulgar, vitriolic entertainment is a true expression of life in the United States. It was...

As the world’s sole remaining superpower, its most celebrated democracy, and the wellspring of an increasingly globalized popular culture, the United States of America excites fear, envy, and interest which are rarely matched by understanding. America is often said to be deeply divided, witlessly vulgar, religiously orthodox, militarily aggressive, economically...

This collection of essays, contributed by some of the nation's top scholars and thinkers, takes on the weighty task of sizing up America.

What Tocqueville noticed about America's uniqueness 170 plus years ago remains even more valid today as the United States attempts to advance the cause of liberty and freedom.

Adaunting reminder of the caution with which the United States must proceed in its admirable efforts to plant democracies in rocky soil.