Jim Martin

This year, July 5 may be more important than July 4. The fireworks are gone. The bands have packed up. The sky is quiet again. What remains is the Declaration’s...

The hardest moment in fatherhood is trusting that the love you gave was strong enough for them to fly.

A republic can survive rich men. It cannot survive the quiet surrender of public power to private wealth.

Legacy does not measure the way the world measures. What people miss when someone is gone is rarely the trophies. They miss the laugh. The voice. The hand on the...

We are not, at this moment, a country without conflict, neither abroad nor within. We are divided by politics and grievance, by competing visions of what America is and what...

To anyone living with a silence, a mother who is gone, lost, or there but not really there, your longing is not weakness. It is love with nowhere to go....

The Class of 2026 did not pass through four quiet years. They entered college as the world was being remade by artificial intelligence. They watched campuses wrestle with war, speech,...

As America nears its 250th birthday in two months, the question is not how loudly we will celebrate, but whether we still have the character to keep the republic we...

Before surgery, my life ran on constant motion and the quiet illusion that tomorrow would cooperate with my intentions. Recovery ended that fiction quickly.

For most of my life, health was background noise. It quietly did its job while I did mine. I trained, worked, traveled, made plans and assumed my body would cooperate....