Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business,...

The essence of education is, in the words of William James, to teach a person what deserves to be valued, to impart ideals as well as knowledge, to cultivate in students the ability to distinguish...

Eisenhower has been much criticized for his failure publicly to endorse the Court’s decision. But he felt that doing so would set an undesirable precedent. If a president endorsed decisions he agreed with, might he...

Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order,

and line of cases. Justice Byron R. “Whizzer” White, a JFK appointee, dissented, calling Doe an act of “raw judicial power,” as it took these decisions from the states and enshrined their determination in the...

American soldiers were dying in frigid Korea. One of our greatest generals told us that the president and his team were not trying to win. And some strident voices were saying that that was because...

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.