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The Matthew J. Ryan Center: Where Civic and Liberal Education Meet

By: Mike Sabo At the heart of the Matthew J. Ryan Center at Villanova University is an unabashed love of America and an open acknowledgement of its greatness, says director Steven F. McGuire. The Ryan Center, he notes, was founded to take seriously American history, traditions, and principles and to promote the study of free societies more […]

The Program on Constitutionalism and Democracy Delivers a Civic Education

By: Mike Sabo Civic education should supply “what students need to know to be participants in American public life,” says University of Virginia professor James W. Ceaser. But that goal is not being met at any educational level today. At the primary and secondary levels, Ceaser contends that civics mostly “isn’t being taught well or […]

Supreme Court Leak Poses ‘Grave Threat to our Republic’

On May 2, Politico published a draft majority opinion of the United States Supreme Court in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization. The draft reverses the landmark Roe v Wade, which found a federal constitutional right to an abortion. The resulting media frenzy and political explosion, including protests at Justices’ homes, proves exactly why the […]