“For Jefferson, William and Mary was largely about what university life is supposed to be about: reading books, enjoying the company of… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
If heaven is understood more as God's space on earth than as an ethereal region apart from the essential reality we know,… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
A globalized world is by now a familiar fact of life. Building walls or moats may sound appealing, but the future belongs… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
As crucial as religion has been and is to the life of the nation, America's unifying force has never been a specific… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
Justified or not, the Supreme Court has a kind of sacred status in American life. For whatever reason, Presidents can safely run… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
“He turned the presidency – and the President's House – into something it had not been before: a center of curiosity and… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt - an episodically terrific idea that burns brightly and then… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
“I hate polemical politics and polemical divinity,” said John Adams. “My religion is founded on the love of God and my neighbor;… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
The decline and fall of the modern religious right's notion of a Christian America creates a calmer political environment and, for many… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
Whether one believes or not, religion is as real a force in the life of the world as economics or politics, and… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
“There is usually a moment in the life of a new president when he begins to see himself not as an aspirant… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
Liberty is precious. But so is life. It should not be so difficult for men and women of good will and good… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
The power of the American system of republicanism lies in its capacity to allow religious belief to be a competing, not a… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
Scripture is not inerrant; believers are called to interpret biblical texts in light of tradition and reason. — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
As a southerner born after the epic events of the civil rights movement, I've always wondered how on earth people of good will could… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
We are now living in a post-Roosevelt, post-Reagan universe. What comes next will not be post-partisan, because faction is an intrinsic human impulse. — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
“his other hand. Sensitive to his guest’s affliction, Churchill realized that “every step” was” — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
Too many activists have convinced themselves that they have a monopoly on truth. A little humility and a sense of history could move us… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
In the fullness of time, I suspect that bigotry against homosexuals will seem as repugnant as racial prejudice does today. Or so one hopes. — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
Mysteries and thrillers are not the same things, though they are literary siblings. Roughly put, I would say the distinction is that mysteries emphasize… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
“When Lincoln was running for the House of Representatives from Illinois, he was charged with being “a scoffer at religion,” wrote the historian William… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
“The Man who has not Music in his Soul, Or is not touch’d with Concord of sweet Sounds, Is fit for Treason, Stratagems, and… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
I am an Episcopalian who takes the faith of my fathers seriously, and I would, I think, be disheartened if my own young children… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
Only the most unapologetic biblical fundamentalists, for instance, take every biblical injunction literally. If we all took all scripture at the same level of… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
“There was, of course, a more immediate point to frequent gatherings of lawmakers, diplomats, and cabinet officers at the president’s table. It tends to… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
