Dr. Robert George delivers a compelling argument regarding the essential nature of power constraints In the kickoff episode of the 2023-24 The Civic Discourse Project lecture series, Dr. Robert George ...

I had the rare honor in September of welcoming a former president of the United States into my classroom. President George W. Bush surprised the students in my seminar, “Presidential Rhetoric and ...

What has happened to civic virtue in a time we need it more than ever? Where is it? Republican forms of government, more than any other, need officials and citizens practicing civic virtue. Civic ...

The ancient Greeks held that four main virtues made good citizens: prudence, temperance, fortitude and justice. We are seeing in today's civic conflicts the clouding of judgment by emotional rhetoric.

Today the Green-Wood Cemetery reports that they have successfully installed Frederick MacMonnies’ 15-foot-high sculpture from the 1920s, called “Civic Virtue.” The statue has a story behind it, and ...

That was Benjamin Franklin’s famous response to Elizabeth Willing Powel’s question, “Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?” as he left the just-concluded Constitutional Convention ...

Looks like the controversial statue, Triumph of Civic Virtue, is being shipped to Brooklyn, reports the Times Ledger. On November 13, the City Design Commission ruled to permanently relocate the ...