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December 19, 2024

Homestead Is Not the Refuge It Wants to Be

It’s getting harder and harder to have a movie that isn’t caught up in the culture wars. Franchises like the MCU, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars sagas, and Disney’s Pixar animations, which once united a broad spectrum of viewers, now get yelled at by both sides, either for not being progressive enough on the one hand or being too “woke” on the other. Continue Reading...
December 16, 2024

Lee Edwards: A Conservative for All Seasons

Dr. Lee Edwards, historian of the American conservative movement and self-professed “admirer of the Acton Institute and its important work,” passed away last week at the age of 92. Edwards was more than a scholar of the conservative movement: He was a pivotal person in it. Continue Reading...
December 11, 2024

Treating Family like Royalty

Many years ago, an acquaintance of my wife’s and mine married a Habsburg. She was not of noble stock—just a good ol’ American girl whose beauty piqued the interest of a European archduke during a visit to the states. Continue Reading...
December 10, 2024

The Life and Death of Alexei Navalny

On February 16, 2024, Alexei Navalny died under mysterious circumstances in the remote Siberian penal colony to which he was moved in late 2023. Founder and leader of the Anti- Corruption Foundation, Navalny was a long-time dissident and one of the most vocal critics of Putin’s regime over the past two decades, so his suspicious death was no surprise to anyone remotely acquainted with contemporary Russian politics. Continue Reading...
December 06, 2024

Archbishop’s Resignation Exposes Church of England Fault Lines

The resignation of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, following the damning Makin Report into the heinous crimes of serial abuser John Smyth, whose severe beatings of students from as far back as the 1980s, exposes problems within the Church of England that point to long-standing doctrinal, disciplinary, and cultural issues that will both determine who takes his place and how the church has come to this sorry pass. Continue Reading...