Possibly, the Founders all knew that their creation was not on solid ground. Benjamin Franklin, when asked what government ...

My grandparents landed on Ellis Island in 1902 with their 1-year-old son, my father, in their arms. Twenty-seven years later, ...

Jefferson believed that he was truly following Jesus by focusing on what was humanly possible rather than proof of Jesus’ ...

In George Steiner’s first book, Tolstoy or Dostoevsky, Steiner promotes the theory that the two great literary traditions of ...

Microsoft’s earliest employees went on to become freelance journalists, volunteer firefighters and cattle ranch owners.

With a few notable exceptions, American presidents nurtured a lifetime habit of sustained character-building reading.

Ted Widmer, a consulting editor for this special issue of Globe Ideas, is the author of “Lincoln on the Verge: Thirteen Days ...

I think it is worth noting that a great number of our Founding Fathers who were pastors of Christian churches did not think it political to frame the Constitution and sign the Declaration of ...

A clear-cut example of the follies of the Founding Fathers. Why would states or people have powers? All power belongs to one ...

A strong case can be made that Father Edward Flanagan, the priest who single-handedly created Nebraska’s Boys Town in 1917, ...