History's lesson is clear—political deals on fundamental human rights don't preserve the Union, they poison it. Two failed presidents proved that appeasement of racism only deepens division.

On Three Speeches that Saved the Union, by Peter Charles Hoffer. The opening salvo in the renewed confrontation came during a routine debate over military appropriations when David Wilmot, a ...

In every society, the health of public life depends not merely on laws, numbers, or popular opinion, but on the moral conscience that guides individual and collective action. When the voice of ...

Norman Finkelstein has spent decades confronting moral compromise, exposing institutional hypocrisy, and refusing the seduction of comfort and civility in the face of atrocity. In his recent ...

What Wouk ultimately seems to trust is neither command nor law alone, but conscience—fragile, pressured, often belated.

At the heart of the public debate over the latest twists and turns in the Trump administration's ongoing discussions with Russian and Ukrainian negotiators is a fundamental moral question on which ...