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Welcome to the American Roundtable, an editorial service of Patrick Henry College, a classical Christian liberal arts college dedicated to fearless learning in the spirit of the American founding. Since the College has been blessed with a mission to impact the nation for Christ and for liberty, with an uncomproming biblical worldview, and with a faculty of accomplished writers, cultural commentators, education reformers and Christian apologists, we have marshaled these dynamic resources to produce incisive commentary on the important issues of the day. The American Roundtable’s cross-disciplinary team of writer-scholars is led by the Chancellor and Founder of Patrick Henry College, Dr. Michael Farris, a constitutional attorney, author, and homeschooling pioneer. It also includes distinguished cultural commentator and PHC Provost Dr. Gene Edward Veith, renowned author and Christian apologist Dr. John Warwick Montgomery, and author and PHC history professor Dr. David Aikman, as well as PHC President Dr. Graham Walker, Journalism Department Director Dr. Les Sillars, and editor David Halbrook, PHC’s Director of Communications. We hope you will enjoy these thoughtful, biblically-informed commentaries on many of the complex and pressing issues affecting our world and nation. If you would like to contribute to the mission of Patrick Henry College, please go to Donate to PHC.

The Worst Journalism of 2011, by Dr. Marvin Olasky I have good news and bad news. The good news is that some of the Patrick Henry WORLD interns I’m supervising this year are already good writers, and others have terrific potential and are rapidly improving. The bad news is that leading media outlets, with the exception of FOX News, remain hostile to Christians and conservatives.  I have a sense of that because for 24 years, since the Media Research Center began handing out mock awards for the worst mainstream journalism of the year, I’ve been a judge. The 98 finalists for 2011 taught me a lot. I thought Barack Obama’s popularity was evaporating, with his temper flaring against anyone who dares to talk back to him, but ABC’s Christiane Amanpour called him “full of sunny optimism, very Reaganesque,” and Lara Spencer on the same network asked, “Is President Obama a baby whisperer?… Watch as the First Lady tries to quiet down the fussy little friend…. She then hands the bawling baby to the big man and, presto, the tot is simply transfixed...."  Read article.

Dr. Michael Farris PHC Chancellor Professor of Government  Read bio.	Dr. Graham Walker  PHC President Professor of Government Read bio.	Dr. Gene Edward Veith  PHC Provost Professor of Literature Read bio.
Dr. John Warwick Montgomery  PHC Professor of Philosophy and Christian Thought Read bio.	Dr. David Aikman  PHC Professor of History and Writer in Residence Read bio.	Dr. Les Sillars PHC Associate Professor of Journalism  Read bio.
Dr. Marvin Olasky PHC Distinguished Chair in Journalism and Public Policy Read bio.	David Halbrook, editor PHC Director of Communications Read bio.