Ian Lindquist

A new curriculum to teach students how to disagree.

The Roman Republic didn’t end all at once. As Ian Lindquist explains, its decline began with an earlier erosion of political norms.

Ian Lindquist on the turn away from plainness in church design during the Victorian era.

On Saturday mornings, I make eggs and bacon for my four children and wife—usually a dozen eggs and most of the package of bacon—before shoveling the kids into the car, hopping into the driver’s seat, and pretending my minivan is a Mustang so that we get to catechism class on time. By the time I…

In her section on memoirs here, Eva Brann reflects on her discomfort with at least one type of praise: “How much sweeter," she writes, "to be serenely sure of having been underestimated than to have to sink through the floor shamed by clueless overpraise." Hammering the point home, Brann adds:…

Recently, I attended a marvelous performance of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night with my twin three-year-olds, a one-year-old, and my wife.

Human beings are crucified across many axes: the here and now, on the one hand, and the infinite and eternal, on the other; the demands of our limited bodies, and the amazing abilities of our souls; participation in our earthly politics, and participation in spiritual communion with that which is…

Americans are a trusting people. We trust that our neighbors behave decently inside their own homes and therefore do not see fit to constantly check on them but rather let them live in peace; we trust that our fellow citizens will act with decency in their jobs so we feel comfortable buying a…

Peggy Noonan’s new volume The Time of Our Lives brings together some of the columnist’s greatest hits. She writes about the peaceful 1990s, the shock of September 11, what it’s like to write a major speech for a president in time of crisis (in this case, Ronald Reagan’s Challenger speech), and many…