There’s a fine Howard Pyle painting called The Nation Builders, which shows a bedraggled line of Patriot soldiers in the Revolutionary War, preparing to meet the enemy’s volley. You have the sense ...

As it happens, I was in Detroit last Tuesday evening, the night of the President’s State of the Union address. Edbloggers have been slicing and dicing the text (and subtext) of the speech all week: Is ...

When plunging into war, hope generally triumphs over experience. The past—the quiet statistical tabulation of what happened when this was tried before—tends to be ignored in the heat of angry oratory ...

Nation-building has gone out of style. The U.S. effort in Afghanistan has lasted a decade, and it's been nearly as long in Iraq. Now, there's little appetite in American political circles for ...

One of the more curious moments in the SOTU came when Pres. Obama quoted, with evident approval, a South Korean habit of calling teachers “nation-builders.” Really? That’s our model for teachers? What ...

President Bush is trying sell his Iraqi reconstruction program at home. In his latest Against the Grain commentary, CBSNews.com's Dick Meyer says the president is making an easy sell hard. "I'm not ...

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The CJI said that India’s Constitution was not a static monument but a living blueprint whose meaning ultimately depended on how lawyers, judges and institutions animated it through their work ...