This is the season of generational twaddle. At graduation ceremonies across the country, politicians, authors, actors, and businessmen take to the stage to tell young people they are fantastic simply because they are young. This year, the ritual is more pathetic than usual because there’s a presidential election in the offing.

Join us for an evening of readings by Dana Gioia, award-winning and internationally acclaimed poet and chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts since 2003. Mr. Gioia will read several favorite passages from one of the greatest and most loved poems in Western literature, The Divine Comedy. ...

There a few notes should be made in the margins of the article by Italian historian Guido Formigoni, published in "TamTam democratic" and entitled "De Gasperi, Dossetti and the false dilemma statism-subsidiarity."  It seems worth noting that the interesting debate animated by Formigoni is found in the notions of "social...

It is a tribute to a polity dedicated to securing our rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness that we can enjoy our freedoms while taking them for granted, giving little thought to what makes them possible. But this inattention comes at a heavy price, paid in increased civic ignorance and decreased national attachment--both dangerous for a self-governing people.

Newtzilla is back. Six weeks ago, during the last Newt Gingrich surge, I wrote here that "conventional weapons are useless against Newtzilla…. Everything bad about Gingrich — the flip-flops, the wives, the ego — is known. Once voters have convinced themselves they can overlook...

Liberals typically erupt in outrage if you suggest they don’t respect or understand the Constitution, let alone defend it.  But then they let slip that in fact they really don’t respect or understand the Constitution.

For America and her allies, dealing with the North Korean regime (to borrow a phrase from the current administration’s own Samantha Power) is a “problem from hell.”