In 1810, as tensions mounted among the United States, France and Britain, President James Madison made sure to note in his second Annual Message, known today as the State of the Union address, that “a well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.” Today, Americans have lost any shared sense of what it means […]

Loni Bordoloi Pazich
Loni Bordoloi Pazich is program director at The Teagle Foundation, responsible for the Foundation’s “Hybrid Learning and the Residential Liberal Arts Experience” initiative.