Learning essential stuff is as much a discipline as going to the gym or sticking to a diet, and an excellent antidote for the modern condition of being numb and dumb.

The collective memory of America is short.

If you're looking for the phony in American politics, you could do worse than follow the money.

The American identity is mind-bogglingly various.

My father was a headmaster in England and then the dean of a college in Australia. We moved there when I was about five, so my education was in Australia, and I always felt I was Australian even though my passport was British.

As a proud Catholic, I know the impact that faith-based education can have in our society and have witnessed it first hand in my district.

When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.

I never expected in a million years that I would have the honor to become an advocate of women's health care and education, and I'd dive on a live grenade to get this message out, so thank you for this forum.