“War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.” —Colin Powell From August 2 1990 to February 28 1991 the United States was involved with a United... Read More

“Tell the truth. A liar needs a good memory,” wrote Roman theoretician Quintilian. Living in the most litigious nation in the world, millions of Americans each year find themselves involved with the judicial system. Nearly anyone can... Read More

It was May, 1985, and the author, a professor at the University of Rochester, was grading papers “with the usual sense of futility” (as he recalled in a letter to his father) when he noticed that the sentence through which he was... Read More