Jon Meacham

The bringing-about of order is the first and fundamental task of government. We accept…

Whether one believes or not, religion is as real a force in the life of…

Without education, we are weaker economically. Without economic power, we are weaker in terms of…

As crucial as religion has been and is to the life of the nation, America’s…

The fact is that America has been at her most prosperous when government and the…

While we remain a nation decisively shaped by religious faith, our politics and our culture…

World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial…

From Jefferson to Jackson to Lincoln to FDR to Reagan, every great president inspires enormous…

The perennial conviction that those who work hard and play by the rules will be…

Here is a pretty good rule of thumb for Democratic Presidents: if it didn’t work…

The past always seems somehow more golden, more serious, than the present. We tend to…

Part of what I loved – and love – about being around older people is the tangible…

If a person is homosexual by nature – that is, if one’s sexuality is as intrinsic…

A globalized world is by now a familiar fact of life. Building walls or moats…

Attacks on a politician’s identity – questioning Romney’s religion, say, or Obama’s birthplace – tend to come…