An excerpt from the first of the 2006-2007 Bradley Lectures.

Ronald C. White of the San Francisco Theological Seminary and the Huntington Library will deliver the September Bradley Lecture.

"It's only words." It cannot be denied that this modern shibboleth has sometimes seemed to win the day. In the era of speechwriters...

How applicable is Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address to our remembrance of September 11?

We ought to know Americanism for what it is: the form in which Puritanism still survives and still inspires peoples who are free or dream of becoming free.

President Obama has missed an opportunity to live up to his promise to take the nation beyond the old battle lines over race.

Twenty-eight percent of those surveyed by Gallup, CNN and USA Today in mid-September said they had voted for an Independent or third-party candidate for president in the past.

In "Crazy U: One Dad’s Crash Course in Getting His Kid into College," Andrew Ferguson is at his dazzling best, using humor and narrative as portals to very serious subjects.

Our extraordinary interest in Lincoln has a lot to do with what he said and how he said it.