What have people meant across the generations when they say, "I believe in America"?

Patrick Deneen’s disdainful review last month in the Washington Post of George Will’s splendid new book, “The Conservative Sensibility,” reasserts fashionable misconceptions about liberalism, conservatism, and America. The review — and, more importantly, the book — provide an occasion to clarify the character of the conservatism that takes its bearings from the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and from the ideas about human nature and freedom that undergird them.

The former FBI directors tend to investigate Republicans far more zealously than Democrats.

What sustains the conservative agenda? What makes it distinctive and coherent? In a word, principle. By Peter Berkowitz.

Liberalism these days seems to encourage an illiberal and anti-democratic tendency to turn hard questions of morality and politics into easy questions of law...

Civics education must not be indoctrination, but it also must not be overlooked. By Peter Berkowitz.

Peter Berkowitz on God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World by Walter Russell Mead

Terrorists are getting very good at covering their tracks. Their pursuers must become even better at uncovering them. By Katya Drozdova.