On his first day in office in January 2025, Trump issued an executive order attempting to deny citizenship to the children ...

Readers, respect not the friends, critics, or even the judgments of posterity that insist on a book’s greatness. Enjoy what you read, and if you’re not enjoying yourself, stop, close the book, and go ...

We should dedicate part of our political efforts over the next twenty-five years to restoring the original understanding of the freedom of the press in American culture and constitutional law.

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While the post-liberal right often asks good questions, many of its answers are flawed, grounded on mistaken premises, and deeply misleading. Since 2016, much of the American right has been ...

A friendship begun in 1985, forged in shared Christian faith and encounters with human misery driven by animus toward religion, would become the ground on which a historic legacy would be built. In ...

States that do not recognize both natural law and the transformation of law and public reason brought about by the raising of religion to a supernatural good will become confessors of false belief ...

The age of digital media has unleashed a profoundly threatening human experiment. By drawing us to waste not only our time, but our attention, social media seduces us to waste our souls. Our brightest ...

The job of present-day conservatives isn't to tear down, lament, and criticize. Instead we should attempt to preserve the good, while mending those things that are broken. Conservatism has never had a ...

The Russian president has been using his army since he became a president: first in Chechnya, later in Georgia, then in Syria, and finally in Ukraine. At some stage, he also realized that energy (oil ...

As this idea of self-creation, telling our own story, self-determination has become seen as the fundamental element of human life, that means those of us who participate more fully in self-creation ...

To be sure, there remain some true-believing via media Protestants who are morally and theologically conservative and continue to attempt to strike the balance between high and low. But whatever their ...