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.

A brief analysis of current public opinion on "white collar" work, reading, and more.

In our four sessions earlier in 2004, our luncheons seem to have laid out pretty well the leading issues of the presidential campaign—namely religion and moral values. Those who took part in the luncheons could feel well prepared for the outcome. We hope your editors were pleased with...

One approach for Mitt Romney would be what opponents might call a double-vanilla ticket, with another white male as vice presidential nominee. Four possibilities come to mind.

In previous sessions, we have explored American politicians' embrace of religious language, how evangelical voters may influence the presidential election, and how frequency of church attendance is a strong indicator of voting patterns. The subject of this session will be recent developments from the latest polls on changing religious...

What is an “evangelical”? How many evangelical voters are there? How have they voted in the past four presidential campaigns? And before that . . . ?

Fifty years ago the great “Roosevelt Coalition” that carried the United States through the Depression and World War II and kept the...

This event is the first in a series of four campaign-season seminars on the critical issues of U.S. foreign and defense policy.