Melissa Wheeler has previously received philanthropic funding to conduct research on responsible leadership. Naomi Baes has previously worked with the Australian Leadership Index to research ...

I’ve always been impressed that the preamble to the Constitution begins, “We the People of the United States.” We’ve heard the phrase so often that we don’t even stop to think about it. But as the ...

In the more than two centuries since Joseph McKeen first introduced the idea that graduates of Bowdoin College were under 'peculiar obligation' to exert their talents for the 'benefit of society,' an ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Conservatives are once again debating the nature of the political common good. This is salutary, for no political ...

I've always been impressed that the preamble to the Constitution begins, "We the People of the United States." We've heard the phrase so often that we don't even stop to think about it. But as the ...

Against a backdrop of irresponsible leadership and distrust of institutions, there is a pervasive sense among the citizens of many countries that they are not well served by authorities and the ...

Reverend Jim Wallis is the founder and president of Sojourners and the author of America’s Original Sin. There is an ancient idea that we have lost, but can and should find again. It’s called simply ...

I still remember a question I got years ago. It was at a public meeting in southern Indiana, in one of those squat, featureless cinder-block buildings you find all across the country. This young woman ...

As chronicled in countless news stories and reports, trust in social institutions is low. The integrity and transparency of these institutions gets a bad grade from the public, and social institutions ...