Patrick Keeney

Commentary When Jay Leno asked which of her co-stars she had found most appealing, Dolly Parton answered with ...

Commentary Carlos Carvalho, president of the University of Austin, recently told his incoming students: “The whole world will ...

Commentary The death of Jason Arday, until recently a professor at the University of Cambridge, is first and ...

Commentary There are few environments more conducive to an inflated sense of self-importance than the modern university, and ...

Commentary The brutal murder of Henry Nowak should have focused public attention on the circumstances surrounding his death ...

Commentary We live in feverish times. The daily news arrives as a succession of cultural upheavals, institutional breakdowns, ...

Commentary American musician and musicologist Rick Beato recently criticized a list of the 30 greatest contemporary American songwriters ...

If the terms we use to identify injury are loosened from their moorings, our capacity for judgment is ...

Commentary I've adopted the modern habit of falling asleep to podcasts. I avoid political ones—there's nothing sleep-inducing about ...

What we are witnessing on both sides of the Atlantic, as well as on both sides of the ...

If Canadians care about freedom, they must care about the institutions that cultivate the habits of mind on ...

For many, the salient point of the Epstein files is the scandal. I think it is more accurately ...

Our public culture rewards juvenile certainty while punishing hesitation, qualification, or good-faith disagreements.

The reigning vice of our age is a smug overconfidence in rendering verdicts, an affliction that affects the ...

Commentary A free society cannot endure without citizens capable of serious thought. The work of self-government demands habits ...

Science has always depended on a collective judgment that is slow, careful, and selective. That judgment is now ...

Commentary American Thanksgiving arrives each year with the reassuring cadence of a great civic ritual: parades and football, ...

Commentary In "I Suffer Therefore I Am: Portrait of the Victim as Hero," Pascal Bruckner exposes the moral ...

Commentary Among all the discussions about climate change, one aspect of the debate gets far too little attention: ...

Commentary The U.S. Department of Energy’s July 29 report titled "A Critical Review of Impacts of Greenhouse Gas ...

Commentary Dialogue, which is the lifeblood of friendship, depends upon a certain moral courage: the willingness to be ...

Commentary The French have an apt expression for those vexing moments when, having exited a spirited exchange, the ...

Commentary In his trenchant essay, "The Average College Student Is Illiterate," Hilarius Bookbinder sounds the alarm over the ...

Commentary It’s curious how the places we love—even briefly—leave their mark. When they suffer, something in us stirs. ...

Commentary The lifeblood of any society is its language, and its health determines the health of public life. ...

Commentary Cities have long been the crucibles of civic life, where individuals from diverse backgrounds come together under ...

Commentary In January, two citizens filed a legal challenge against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's decision to prorogue Parliament ...