Ada is a very ardent Christian, and if she believes that drinking is a sin, she believes all these people are going to hell,” ...

Now, ensconced in another Gilded Age, we stand in need of a similar groundswell. If we can shake off the sense that the existing maldistribution of resources is just second nature, it may yet come.

In its second season, “The Gilded Age” — Julian Fellowes’s peculiar attempt to channel the themes of Edith Wharton in the key of “Downton Abbey” — abandons lofty and literary ...

Distinctly Catholic: Never mind facts — we want to both save money, and inspire the poor to improve themselves. But virtue is not only for the poor. It's for everybody.

Best of the Web Today columnist James Taranto on NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg's efforts to reduce illegitimacy. Photo: Getty Images There remains a core of civic virtue and involvement in working ...

In The Gilded Age Season 3, Ada’s embrace of the temperance movement is both historically accurate and dramatically rich.

Despite President Trump’s bombastic calls to “leave” the country if we don’t like it, true patriots in a democratic society dissent in the face of moral outrage.

As we reach the end of The Gilded Age Season 2, I’m reminded how I often felt throughout the first season of the HBO show. Namely, I wanted to take Marian Brook (Louisa Jacobson) out for a drink ...

A: Moral suasion was used as an argument to end slavery, because the abolitionists felt that thinking people who were basically good people in America could be persuaded by argument that slavery ...