Palladium Pictures

His premise is that the great men of America’s founding generation are figures of the present as well as the past. Their essence is found in the principles they prized and the institutions they created—which we, as their inheritors, are bound by duty to understand, whether we like it or…

JUST how much did 9/11 change American politics? Let me put it this way: When was the last time the phrase “faith-based institutions” crossed your consciousness? If you’re at all politically aware, you couldn’t get away from the debate over whether the federal government could redirect social-welfare dollars into programs…

Filmmaker Michael Pack says it was pure luck that in his project to chronicle six ordinary months in the life of then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich, he turned up six extraordinary ones. When Pack’s cameras started following the Georgia Republican in September 1998 during a dinosaur bone search in Montana, the…