Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt - an episodically terrific idea that burns brightly and then seems to... →
Jon Meacham
Justified or not, the Supreme Court has a kind of sacred status in American life. For whatever reason, Presidents can safely run against Congress... →
The power of the American system of republicanism lies in its capacity to allow religious belief to be a competing, not a controlling, factor in... →
Whether one believes or not, religion is as real a force in the life of the world as economics or politics, and it demands fair-minded attention.... →
The decline and fall of the modern religious right's notion of a Christian America creates a calmer political environment and, for many... →
As crucial as religion has been and is to the life of the nation, America's unifying force has never been a specific faith, but a commitment to... →
The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self.
George Herbert Mead
To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation.
Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
Margaret Mead
Life isn't easy, and leadership is harder still.
Walter Russell Mead