The Ten Commandments embody the core principles of the way of life of ancient Israel and of the Judeo-Christian ethic. Even in our increasingly secular age, their influence on the prevailing morality of the West is enormous--albeit not always acknowledged or welcomed. Today, the Ten Commandments provide a major symbolic...

By publicly displaying the Ten Commandments, weteach thatthat the American legal tradition is fundamentally different from the Mosaic legal code, to which the Ten Commandments belong.

God bless the ACLU for cleansing the public life of the United States, at last, of discriminatory religious speech.

If American mortgage borrowers act in their own narrow interests, as "knaves," they might yet cause an economic collapse worse than anything we have suffered.

Regulatory drag can be reduced only as part of a reform that credibly promises to ease burdens and protect the public. Such reform is possible, but it needs to start by changing how Congress approaches regulation: lawmakers must assume responsibility for rule-making.

America's Founders had no trouble with the God now deemed out of bounds.

Twenty years ago, AEI launched the Bradley Lecture series to explore the important ideas that have shaped Western civilization and modern American politics.