Essay writing is important. It teaches us to think critically and to develop agency with respect to knowledge. Essays are also a site where deficiencies of character are expressed.

I yearn for the day when traditional conservatives argued that character counts in our political leaders, and that the ...

There are many reasons that explain the rise of Donald Trump, but moral character is not one of them. He’s an energetic showman, the loudest and most dominant voice in the political arena ...

And yet we political conservatives would not vote for him because, despite his support of so many of the the policies we favored, he lacked the moral character we argued was vital to leadership in ...