Virtues

Commentary There’s an elephant in the room, the speaker declared. He was right. I was at a gathering, as I often am, of people who aspire to rescue their countries ...

The key to happiness, and even physical well-being, may lie in the pleasures derived through giving to individuals ...

Merriam-Webster defines humility as “freedom from pride or arrogance”—and humility, it seems, has gone out of fashion. Modern ...

Recently, I stumbled across this adage attributed to Ben Franklin: “Be at war with your vices, at peace ...

The University of California–Irvine (UCI) has received a $1 million grant from a Philadelphia-based charity to expand a ...

Commentary War, like other life-or-death crises, has a way of clearing things up. You see this in how ...

The 7-year-old darts through the dining room carrying his plastic shield and wooden sword, and yelling “Up, men! ...

Commentary In declaring their independence from Great Britain, Americans famously asserted their unalienable rights. Much less conspicuously, but ...

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Of the four classical virtues—courage, justice, prudence, and temperance—the last is arguably the most demanding. Bravely standing by ...

Justice. When we hear this word, our thoughts may turn to a courtroom replete with judge and jury. ...

Courage, the ability to act or speak out despite our fears, undergirds all the other virtues. It allows ...

Commentary Painfully aware of our mortality, humankind has continuously sought to buffer itself against the existential threats of ...

"If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly ...

“Captain Blood.” For years, mention of the novel by Rafael Sabatini (1875–1950) about pirates in the Caribbean would ...

A lot of political, social, and economic progress has been made in this country's history. However, core virtues ...

Our schools and colleges, with few exceptions, do less to form character and educate in the virtues than ...