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Eugene McCarthy, St. Damien of Molokai, and the limits of politics
- Former U.S. Senator Eugene McCarthy, D-Minn., ran for president four times, but his most memorable campaign was in 1968, where a strong insurgent showing led to the political downfall of
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Russell Kirk’s path to Christ
- Every once in a while, someone online, being either sincere or sincerely mischievous, loves to ask about the status of unrecognized saints. Who is the person most likely to be saint that the
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In the Liberal Tradition: Walter Williams
- The world lost a voice for logic, liberty, and love of the U.S. Constitution when economist Walter Williams died on December 2, 2020, at the age of 84. Williams worked his way out of
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Medical conscience rights: the next civil rights struggle
- Something authoritarian this way comes. Powerful forces are striving to impose a secular ethic on the entire medical professional which – in the name of “patients’ rights” – seeks to compel
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Editor's Note: Winter 2021
Politics divides; commerce and goodwill unite. That truth has been driven home as waves of politically motivated violence have swept the nation. Ismael Hernandez observes that the underlying
Solzhenitsyn: Prophet to America
Solzhenitsyn and American Culture: The Russian Soul in the West. David P. Deavel and Jessica Hooten Wilson, eds. University of Notre Dame Press. 2020. 392 pages. Reviewed by John Couretas
Political violence, Left and Right
In the past year, many American cities experienced violent outbursts during and after protests led by groups such as Black Lives Matter (BLM) and Antifa’s united front. Their attacks still
Rev. Maciej Zięba, O.P. (1954-2020)
Few people have the courage to resist a totalitarian system from within; fewer still have the intellectual and moral grounding to plant the seeds of its metamorphosis into a free and
The solution to political violence?
The defining political moments of the last 12 months came not from the lackluster presidential campaign, but from months of explosive violence. Riots and looting associated with Black Lives
Preserving the inheritance: a defense of the great books
Books are powerful. They have the ability to lift us out of present circumstances, to speak beyond their time, to impart messages, arguments, and ideas in both didactic and experiential ways
Is Critical Race Theory un-American?
When President Trump signed an executive order banning Critical Race Theory from being taught in the federal bureaucracy, it provoked an outraged response from the ideology’s defenders in
The ‘Ecocide’ movement: a crime against humanity
Radical environmentalists plan to criminalize large-scale industrial enterprise. To be more precise, they plan to categorize wealth-producing and job-creating activities as a crime known as