Mercy Otis Warren lost that debate. But her ideas still left a mark, and for that reason, she is worth remembering and ...

Madison, Hamilton, and, to a lesser extent, John Jay provide a comprehensive defense of the new U.S. Constitution as they fight for its ratification in what will become a contentious and, in the end, ...

Q. You’ve written about the Federalists and the Federalist Papers. But, who were the Anti-Federalists and what did they want? A. The central debate surrounding the drafting and ratification of the ...

Today, we celebrate the 238th anniversary of the publication of the very first essay in The Federalist Papers. Alexander Hamilton’s Federalist No. 1 from Oct. 27, 1787, marks the start of a seminal ...

”Every man who loves peace, every man who loves his country, every man who loves liberty out to have it before his eyes that he may cherish in his heart a due attachment to the Union of America and be ...

If the election just held in Israel showed a strong democracy in action, it also highlighted certain weaknesses of Israel’s system. There was an uproar in mid-January when a Supreme Court justice ...

One of the pleasures of writing is you often surprise yourself. Poets and fiction writers try to get out of the way to allow the work to go where it wants to go; nonfiction writers, like journalists, ...