Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Zoë Petersen; Deseret News At midday on Sept. 10, I walked with visiting JROTC cadets through Utah Valley University’s Sorenson ...

As we celebrate our nation’s 237th birthday, a crucial facet of American life has all but vanished. We have forsaken, in any systematic and deliberate public manner, one of our most fundamental duties ...

The ancient Greeks held that four main virtues made good citizens: prudence, temperance, fortitude and justice. We are seeing in today's civic conflicts the clouding of judgment by emotional rhetoric.

Looks like the controversial statue, Triumph of Civic Virtue, is being shipped to Brooklyn, reports the Times Ledger. On November 13, the City Design Commission ruled to permanently relocate the ...

At the heart of this trend is a civilizational challenge: a steady breakdown of the civic virtues that once sustained Western democracy. While algorithms, ideology, and partisanship may nurture ...

What has happened to civic virtue in a time we need it more than ever? Where is it? Republican forms of government, more than any other, need officials and citizens practicing civic virtue. Civic ...

I had the rare honor in September of welcoming a former president of the United States into my classroom. President George W. Bush surprised the students in my seminar, “Presidential Rhetoric and ...

Today the Green-Wood Cemetery reports that they have successfully installed Frederick MacMonnies’ 15-foot-high sculpture from the 1920s, called “Civic Virtue.” The statue has a story behind it, and ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

I am writing in response to Robert Tafoya’s Community Voice titled “What is really on the Board of Education’s agenda?” (Nov. 18). His concerns about process and fairness are well taken, but I believe ...