Dr. Robert George delivers a compelling argument regarding the essential nature of power constraints In the kickoff episode of the 2023-24 The Civic Discourse Project lecture series, Dr. Robert George ...

The ancient Greeks held that four main virtues made good citizens: prudence, temperance, fortitude and justice. We are seeing in today's civic conflicts the clouding of judgment by emotional rhetoric.

I had the rare honor in September of welcoming a former president of the United States into my classroom. President George W. Bush surprised the students in my seminar, “Presidential Rhetoric and ...

The Franciscans who built San Antonio's missions nearly 300 years ago imagined the structures as teachers - they were designed to inculcate virtue. The more beauty in the stone and the more splendor ...

That was Benjamin Franklin’s famous response to Elizabeth Willing Powel’s question, “Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?” as he left the just-concluded Constitutional Convention ...

Many contemporary observers believe that liberal states need to encourage the virtues of citizenship as a corrective to calculative individualism. Yet others fear that any such effort will jeopardize ...