From the beginning of the American experiment, one of its animating principles has been limited government overseen by citizen legislators. Contrast that with the “big, beautiful” spending bill being ...

Washington defined the presidency not by what it could do, but by what it must refuse to become.

Last November, during a symposium at Mount Vernon on democracy, John Kelly, the retired Marine Corps general who served as Donald Trump’s second chief of staff, spoke about George Washington’s ...

Andrew O’Shaughnessy, a history professor at the University of Virginia, is the author of “The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire.” He is a ...