As I understand the American Founders, the most brilliant and daring idea they had was that it's possible to create a free society that could stay free forever.

The Christian church in the U.S. is still strong numerically, but it has lost its decisive influence both in American public life and in American culture as a whole, especially in the major elite institutions of society.

Beyond any question, the way the American founders consistently linked faith and freedom, republicanism and religion, was not only deliberate and thoughtful, it was also surprising and anything but routine.

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.

Will dissent be permitted? The answer to that question will determine whether the society is a free society or a fear society.