Reagan telegraphed belief in a God-blessed America by describing the United States as “a shining city on a hill.” Reagan flipped the original meaning of a Biblical phrase from a 17th century ...

His memoir “Growing Up” depicted her hometown “like a shining city on a hill.” Other authors who mean a lot to the musician ...

Small wonder America’s allure is fading. Recent events warrant it. As a columnist, beating the drum ceaselessly only induces ...

I grew up believing in the idea of America as the shining city on a hill. That never meant we were perfect—no nation is—but that we strove to be. Our founders enshrined that in the ...

Ronald Reagan celebrated it as a “shining city on a hill.” George W. Bush argued that the nation was “the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world.” But to President Trump ...

(Dmitri Lovetsky/AP) The idea of America as an exceptional nation is often expressed by the phrase “a shining city on a hill.” But people forget how John Winthrop first used this description ...

For all of my adult life, despite years as a journalist reporting and writing about abuses and cruelty, I have thought of my country, the United States of America, as moving toward a more just ...