Thankful for Freedom

While I was attending graduate school in the early 1980s, I stopped for coffee in a Malibu, California, restaurant. Coming from a non-political family, ...

Filmmaker Excludes Latinos in World War II Documentary

It's not all that hard to argue that Ken Burns is the biggest name in the world of documentaries. His stirring works about the Civil War, baseball, ...

Chesterton on the Ten Commandments

If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments.

Liberty Demands Responsibility

"Freedom is only part of the story and half the truth…. That is why I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented ...

Augustine on the Limitations of Free Will

Free will, without God's grace and the Holy Ghost, can do nothing but sin.

Prisoners Find Liberation Hard to Accept

In his book Ghost Soldiers, Hampton Sides tells the story of a dramatic mission during World War II. On January 28th, 1945, 121 hand-selected Army Rangers ...

Former Slave's Story Ends with Freedom

In her book Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Harriet Jacobs wrote these words about her years of slavery: "Only by experience can any one realize ...

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on Freedom

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

Lincoln Frees a Slave

There is an old story [probably apocryphal, according to one Lincoln historian] that Abraham Lincoln went down to the slave block to buy a slave girl. ...

Freedom of the Air

When you stand beside a 747 jet on the runway, its massive weight and size makes it seem incapable of breaking the holds of gravity.

But when the power ...