Recent Commentaries
Trump Trifecta
May 20, 2026
The Greatest Sentence Ever Written
May 18, 2026
Article II Clarified
May 14, 2026
If It Looks Like a Duck…
May 11, 2026
A Tale of Two Voices
May 8, 2026
How Do We Manage Division?
May 5, 2026
The Supreme Court is Broken. How Do We Fix It?
May 1, 2026
Leadership as a Moral Act
April 29, 2026
Unity is Not a Declaration. It’s a Discipline.
April 27, 2026
When the Line No Longer Holds
April 26, 2026
Read More Articles
The Latest... And Sometimes Greatest
How High Can Leadership Rise?
What is power accountable to when it no longer accepts limits? We have seen what happens when power turns inward—when it begins to believe it...
April 20, 2026
The Burden of Command
What does leadership require when decisions send others into harm’s way, and uncertainty is shared not just by those in command, but by the nation...
April 16, 2026
“If I wasn’t in the White House, Leo wouldn’t be in the Vatican”
Question: How low can Donald Trump go?Answer: Low enough to attack the head of the Catholic Church and, by extension, 1.4 billion Catholics. His latest...
April 13, 2026
We
What will define us at 250 years—not our disagreements, but what we are willing to believe about one another, and about the truth itself? As...
April 9, 2026
An Easter Message That Matters
On Thursday, three days before Easter Sunday, Pope Leo XIV delivered a message that went straight to the point. “Leadership is not measured by authority,...
April 4, 2026
The Man Who Feared What We Might Become
Since my dinner with Jefferson, Hamilton, and Madison, I’ve been reading more about James Madison, who’s often called the father of the Constitution. What struck...
March 30, 2026