Throughout the United States, Americans are celebrating Independence Day. Even in a pluralistic society, with different worldviews and values, nothing unites the American people more than an appeal to ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

But a limited, non-tyrannical government cannot control all behavior. There is not only "political freedom," but there must also be "moral restraint," which is far more crucial. For example, most ...

And like that previous book, Moral Freedom is more ambitious than may at first be apparent. For Wolfe is not content merely to describe sympathetically our principles and virtues. He also mounts a ...

In his new book, Alan Wolfe sizes up the moral philosophy of the American people. His descriptions rest partly on a survey conducted last year by the New York Times and partly on interviews he and his ...

Alexander Phipps is a research associate and co-manager of the Supreme Court and Appellate Advocacy Program at The Heritage Foundation's Institute for Constitutional Government. Arkansas Gov. Asa ...

I’m a fan of FiveThirtyEight, a website that looks at policy issues from a data-heavy perspective, but everyone publishes a clunker once in a while. In February, FiveThirtyEight ran a piece called ...

Whenever a new technology comes along that creates a revolutionarily new means of communication, the young glom onto it and their elders, or a highly vocal group of them, believe it is leading to the ...