In the Introduction to his biography of Alexander Hamilton, former “National Review” editor and historian Richard Brookhiser wrote that “As an orator, he was not spellbinding. His method…was to find the first principles (emphasis mine) of his topic and tirelessly,…
When I went into state government as a law-school clerk in 1969 I was told by the Department chairman that we were all public servants, and that every day when we go to work we put our jobs on the…
Whether they are aware or unaware of how the Pentateuch (the first five books of the Old Testament–Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy) was put together, as an oral tradition passed by generations of Levites with memory skills of inestimable…