A little over a year ago, on one of the world’s most popular podcasts, The Joe Rogan Experience, the host Joe Rogan asked the musician Kid Rock, “If you could go to one place, where would you go? Continue Reading...
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April 17, 2025
Restoring the Broken Embrace after Tragedy
In December 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed. My family had left just a few months earlier to immigrate to Israel from Leningrad—which reverted post-collapse to its pre-revolutionary name of St. Petersburg. Continue Reading...
April 16, 2025
Live Not by Lies Is More than a Movie
Angel Studios is a rare enterprise in American film, trying to put together popularity, prestige, Christianity, and new media. They had a major hit with Sound of Freedom (2023), then aimed for the Oscars with Bonhoeffer (2024). Continue Reading...
April 15, 2025
God and Mr. Lincoln
Today marks the 160th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s death. Almost immediately after the terrible event of his assassination, the martyred president was elevated to the heights of American civil religion. Despite their earlier opposition to the conduct of the war, Radical Republicans sought to appropriate his legacy to justify their extreme plans for Reconstruction. Continue Reading...
April 10, 2025
America Poured Billions into DEI Initiatives. Who Benefited?
Less than a month after George Floyd’s death, evolutionary biologist Bret Weinstein appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience to explain the sentiment behind America’s new reckoning on race. “There’s a cybernetic principle: the purpose of a system is what it does,” he asserted. Continue Reading...
April 09, 2025
Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Champion of Life
There’s a line that’s been attributed to Martin Luther that goes something like this: “Even if I knew the world was going to end tomorrow, I would still plant a tree today.” Continue Reading...
April 07, 2025
There Is No ‘Just Tariff’
James Hartley provided a thought-provoking and insightful discussion of tariffs at a recent Acton Lecture Series event. Far be it from me to say he is completely off-base when it comes to tariffs. Continue Reading...
April 03, 2025
Can Virtue Be Taught?
Educating young people in a mass democracy proves no easy task. Variations in location, the abilities and interests of the students, the role of the parents, and conceptions concerning the end(s) of education create much confusion that aggregated metrics fail to capture. Continue Reading...
April 02, 2025
Economics According to St. Matthew
Michael Pakaluk, a Harvard-trained philosopher and professor of political economy at the Catholic University’s Busch School of Business, has written a new book, Be Good Bankers: The Economic Interpretation of Matthew’s Gospel with a Fresh Translation. Continue Reading...
April 01, 2025
What Is War Good For?
It’s a common belief today that all war is evil. This is especially true in the wake of the confusing quagmires that have come to characterize warfare in the 21st century: Afghanistan, Iraq, and now Ukraine. Continue Reading...
