A new bio highlights Washington’s early appeals to “nationality” and to the people’s sovereignty; but it makes him out to be at the mercy of circumstances.

The “1619 Project” can deliver on its promissory only by enslaving free labor.

Preserving good government depends upon a people’s ability to demonstrate the character appropriate to the task—and ours is in question.

Politics requires fit characters, but can virtue be restored as a basis for liberty? Four contributors address this problem.

George Washington offers many lessons on how to understand the common good and living well together: it begins with character.

“We are either a United people, or we are not; if the former, let us, in all matters of general concern act as a nation.”